Tha Ap 322Kumudamāliya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

320. Kumudamāliya

Walt 2821-2822 Taking a white lotus bloom I

laid it before the Best Buddha,

Sacrificial Recipient,

the Bull, Excellent One, Hero,

Victorious One, the Great Sage,

Vipassi Buddha , Great Hero,

like a lion which is well-born. Verse 1-2

Walt 2823 In the ninety-one aeons since

I did pūjā with that flower,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of Buddha- pūjā . Verse 3

Walt 2824 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Kumudamāliya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Kumudamāliya Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Arakkhada, Bhojanada,

Gatasaññi and Padumika,

Pupphâsani, Santhavaka,

Saddasañi, Tiraṁsiya,

Kandali and Komudi too:

there are fifty-seven verses.

The Ārakkhadāya Chapter, the Thirty-Second

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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