Tha Ap 346Tīṇikiṅkhaṇikapūjaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

341. {344.} Tīṇikiṅkhaṇikapūjaka

Walt 3100 Close to the Himalayan range,

there’s a mountain, Bhūtagaṇa.

There I saw a robe made of rags,

stuck up in the top of a tree. Verse 1

Walt 3101 At that time I then scattered there

three lovely kiṅkhaṇi flowers.

Happy, and with a happy heart,

I did pūjā to that rag-robe. Verse 2

Walt 3102 In the thirty-one aeons since

I did that good karma back then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that is the fruit of three flowers. Verse 3

Walt 3103 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Tīṇikiṅkhaṇikapūjaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Tīṇikiṅkhaṇikapūjaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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