Tha Ap 64Āvopupphiya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

62. Āvopupphiya

Walt 1355 Departing the monastery

he came forward on the walkway

declaring the Four Noble Truths,

preaching the state of deathlessness. Verse 1

Walt 1356 Discerning the words of Sikhi,

the Best Buddha, the Neutral One,

picking up various flowers

I threw them up into the sky. Verse 2

Walt 1357 Through that karma for the Buddha,

the World’s Best One, the Bull of Men,

I’ve attained the unshaking state

beyond all conquest and defeat. Verse 3

Walt 1358 In the thirty-one aeons since

I honored him with flowers then ,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of flower- pūjā . Verse 4

Walt 1359 Twenty aeons ago I was

Sumedha the Kṣatriyan,

a wheel-turner with great power,

possessor of the seven gems. Verse 5

Walt 1360 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Āvopupphiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Āvopupphiya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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