Tha Ap 292Pubbaṅgamaniya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

290. Pubbaṅgamaniya

Walt 2665 Eighty-four thousand great people

renounced the world, nothing at all.

I gave precedence to them then,

wishing for the ultimate goal. Verse 1

Walt 2666 In this world of lust and being,

they carefully attended on

the Undisturbed One, Lucid One,

feeling well- pleased by their own hands. Verse 2

Walt 2667 Their Faults Destroyed, Defects Expelled,

they Did their Duty, Free of Fault,

Pervading all with Loving Hearts,

Self-Become Ones, Unconquered Ones; Verse 3

Walt 2668 remembering those Sambuddhas,

having given service to them,

when the time of my death arrived,

I went to divine existence. Verse 3-4

Walt 2669 In the ninety-four aeons since

I protected morals back then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of being restrained. Verse 5

Walt 2670 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Pubbaṅgamaniya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Pubbaṅgamaniya Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Paṇṇa, Phala, Uggamiya,

Ekapupphi, and Maghava,

Upaṭṭhāka’s apadāna ,

Pabbajja and Upaṭṭhaha,

and Pubbaṅgama; the verses

are counted as forty and eight.

The Paṇṇadāyaka Chapter, the Twenty-Ninth

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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