Tha Ap 363Ekamandāriya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

– Mandārapupphiya Chapter, the Thirty-Seventh

358. {361.} Ekamandāriya

Walt 3180-3181 Coming here from Tāvatiṁsa,

I was a man named Maṅgala.

Taking a mandārava bloom,

I carried it over the head

of Vipassi Buddha , Great Sage,

seated then in meditation.

I carried it thus for a week,

then returned to the world of gods. Verse 1-2

Walt 3182 In the ninety-one aeons since

I did pūjā to the Buddha,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

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

Walt 3183 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Ekamandāriya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Ekamandāriya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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