Tha Ap 482Pulinacaṅkamiya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

477. {480.} Pulinacaṅkamiya

Walt 5025 In the past, in a forest grove,

I was a man who hunted deer.

Searching after a vāta -deer,

I saw the Buddha’s walkway there . Verse 1

Walt 5026 Happy, with pleasure in my heart,

taking sand in my lap-pocket,

I sprinkled it on the walkway

of the Well-Gone One, Splendid One. Verse 2

Walt 5027 In the thirty-one aeons since

I sprinkled that sand at that time ,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that is the fruit of giving sand. Verse 3

Walt 5028 My defilements are now burnt up;

all new existence is destroyed.

Like elephants with broken chains,

I am living without constraint. Verse 4

Walt 5029 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 5

Walt 5030 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Pulinacaṅkamiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Pulinacaṅkamiya Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Naḷamālī, Maṇidada,

Ukkāsatika, Vījanī,

Kummāsa and Kusaṭṭha too ,

also Giripunnāgiya,

Vallikāra, Pānadhida

and then Pulīnacaṅkama:

five and ninety are the verses

that are counted by those who know.

The Naḷamāli Chapter, the Forty-Eighth

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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