Tha Ap 73Nāgasamāla

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

– Nāgasamāla Chapter, the Eighth

71. Nāgasamāla

Walt 1423 I paid reverence at the stupa

of Sikhi, Kinsman of the World,

with a trumpet flower that had been

thrown away on the great highway. Verse 1

Walt 1424 In the thirty-one aeons since

I did that good karma back then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of stupa- pūjā . Verse 2

Walt 1425 In the fifteenth aeon ago

the Kṣatriyan named Bhūmiya

was a wheel-turner with great strength,

possessor of the seven gems. Verse 3

Walt 1426 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Nāgasamāla Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Nāgasamāla Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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