Tha Ap 465Citakanibbāpaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

460. {463.} Citakanibbāpaka

Walt 4874 When the corpse was being burnt of

Vessabhu Buddha , the Great Sage,

taking sweetly- scented water,

I put out the funeral pyre. Verse 1

Walt 4875 In the thirty-one aeons since

I put out that funeral pyre,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of scented water. Verse 2

Walt 4876 My defilements are now burnt up;

all new existence is destroyed.

Like elephants with broken chains,

I am living without constraint. Verse 3

Walt 4877 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 4

Walt 4878 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Citakanibbāpaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Citakanibbāpaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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