Tha Ap 460Jātipupphiya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

455. {458.} Jātipupphiya

Walt 4845 When the Blessed One passed away,

Padumuttara, Greatly Famed,

putting flowers into a box,

I offered them to the relics. Verse 1

Walt 4846 Bringing pleasure to my heart there,

I went to Nimmāna heaven .

Residing in the world of gods,

I remembered my good karma. Verse 2

Walt 4847 From the sky a rain of flowers

is raining on me all the time.

Transmigrating among humans,

I was a king who had great fame. Verse 3

Walt 4848 In that place a rain of flowers

is raining on me every day,

due to that flower-offering

to the One Who Sees Everything. Verse 4

Walt 4849 This is the final time for me;

my last rebirth is proceeding.

Even today, a flower-rain

is raining on me every day. Verse 5

Walt 4850 In the hundred thousand aeons

since I presented that flower,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of relic-worship. Verse 6

Walt 4851 My defilements are now burnt up;

all new existence is destroyed.

Like elephants with broken chains,

I am living without constraint. Verse 7

Walt 4852 Being in Best Buddha’s presence

was a very good thing for me.

The three knowledges are attained;

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 8

Walt 4853 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 9

Thus indeed Venerable Jātipupphiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Jātipupphiya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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