I saw the Leader of the World
being led into a garden.
Picking up a wreath for the head
made of gold, superbly fashioned,
and quickly rising up from there,
mounted on an elephant’s back,
I gave it to the Buddha then,
to Sikhi, Kinsman of the World.In the thirty-one aeons since
I did pūjā with that flower,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā.In the twenty-seventh aeon
hence lived one lord of the people
who was named Mahāpatāpa
a wheel-turning king with great strength.The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!
Thus indeed Venerable Vaṭaṁsakiya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Vaṭaṁsakiya Thera is finished.