Thi Ap 5Tīṇinaḷamālikā

– Therīpadāna

– The Legends of the Therīs

5. Tīṇinaḷamālikā

Walt 37 On Candabhāgā River’s bank,

I was a kinnarī back then.

I saw the Stainless Buddha there ,

Self-Become, the Unconquered One. Verse 1

Walt 38 Happy, with pleasure in my heart,

awe-struck, with hands pressed together,

taking a garland made of reeds,

I worshipped the Self-Become One. Verse 2

Walt 39-40 Due to that karma done very well,

I went to the Thirty-Three Gods .

I was fixed in the chief queen’s place

of thirty-six kings of the gods. Verse 3

Walt 40 I was fixed in the chief queen’s place

of ten kings who were wheel-turners.

My heart being agitated,

I went forth into homelessness. Verse 4

Walt 42 My defilements are now burnt up;

existence has been slain for me.

All my defilements are destroyed;

now there will be no more rebirth. Verse 5

Walt 41 In the ninety-four aeons since

I did pūjā with that flower,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of Buddha- pūjā . Verse 6

Walt 43 My defilements are now burnt up;

all new existence is destroyed.

Like elephants with broken chains,

I am living without constraint. Verse 7

Walt 44 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 8

Walt 45 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 9

Thus indeed Bhikkhunī Tīṇinaḷamālikā spoke these verses.

The legend of Tīṇinaḷamālikā Therī is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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