Tha Ap 251Bimbijāliya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

249. Bimbijāliya

Walt 2491 The Victor Padumuttara,

Self-Become One, the Chief Person,

explaining the Four Noble Truths,

declared the path to deathlessness. Verse 1

Walt 2492 At that time I then spread out there

flowers called bimbijālika

and offered them to the Buddha,

Lord of Bipeds, the Neutral One. Verse 2

Walt 2493 In the sixty-eighth aeon hence

were four named Kiñjakesara,

wheel-turning monarchs with great strength,

possessors of the seven gems. Verse 3

Walt 2494 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Bimbijāliya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Bimbijāliya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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