Tha Ap 97Gandhamāliya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

95. Gandhamāliya

Walt 1576-78 I made a perfumed stupa for

him , Siddhattha, the Blessed One,

the Buddha, Top Chief of the World,

blazing up like a fire-altar,

bright as a blue water lily,

as superb as a tiger bull,

of noble birth as is a lion,

seated, the Top of all the Monks,

Honored by the Monks’ Assembly,

and covered it with jasmine flowers

appropriate for the Buddha.

Then worshipping the Teacher’s feet

I departed facing the north. Verse 1-3

Walt 1579 In the ninety-four aeons since

I gave that perfumed garland then ,

distinguished by the fruit of doing

what should be done for the Buddha,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

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

Walt 1580 In the thirty-ninth aeon hence

there were sixteen different people;

all were known as Devagandha

and they were all wheel-turning kings. Verse 5

Walt 1581 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Gandhamāliya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Gandhamāliya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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