Tha Ap 352Ekañjaliya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

347. {350.} Ekañjaliya

Walt 3136-3137 The Sambuddha named Revata

dwelt on a riverbank back then.

I saw the Buddha, Stainless One,

like the sun with its rays of gold,

like beaten gold atop a forge,

burning bright like cedar charcoal,

shining forth like the morning star.

I pressed my hands together once. Verse 1-2

Walt 3138 In the ninety-four aeons since

I pressed my hands together then ,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that is the fruit of saluting. Verse 3

Walt 3139 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Ekañjaliya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Ekañjaliya Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Paduma, Uppalahattha,

Dhaja, Kiṅkhaṇika, Nala,

Campaka, Paduma, Muṭṭhi,

Tinduk and thus Ekañjali.

There are six plus sixty verses

which are counted by those who know.

The Ekapadumiya Chapter, the Thirty-Fifth

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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