Tha Ap 371Timirapupphiya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

366. {369.} Timirapupphiya

Walt 3210 On Candabhāgā River’s bank,

I was going with the current.

I saw the Spotless One, Buddha,

like a regal sal tree in bloom. Verse 1

Walt 3211 Happy, with pleasure in my heart,

taking a timira flower

to the Supreme Pacceka -Sage,

I strew it on that Buddha’s head. Verse 2

Walt 3212 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 3213 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Timirapupphiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Timirapupphiya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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