Right when Well-Gone Atthadassi
had achieved final nirvana,
I was born in a spirit’s womb;
I possessed great glory back then.“It’s a bad attainment for me,
a bad dawn, a bad arising,
that I should find such opulence
when the Eyeful One’s passed away.”Discerning what I was thinking,
the follower named Sāgara
with a wish for my upliftment,
then came into my presence there:“Why are you grieving? Do not fear!
o you knower of the Teaching,
by the Buddha have been given
the seeds of everyone’s success.He who’d worship the Sambuddha,
Siddhattha, Leader of the World,
should worship even one small bone
after the final nirvana.When the heart’s pleasure is the same
there is the same priceless merit.
Therefore having built a stupa,
worship the Victor’s relics there.”After hearing Sāgara’s words,
I then built a Buddha-stupa.
For five years I attended to
that Sage’s ultimate stupa.Due to that deed for the Biped-Lord,
the World’s Best One, the Bull of Men,
having enjoyed great happiness,
I attained my arahantship.In the seventh aeon ago
there were four named Bhūripañña,
wheel-turning kings with great power,
possessors of the seven gems.The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!
Thus indeed Venerable Paccupaṭṭhānasaññaka Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Paccupaṭṭhānasaññaka Thera is finished.