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tha-ap.166 Thera Apadana

Desapūjaka

Atthadassi, the Blessed One,
the World’s Best One, the Bull of Men,
having risen into the sky
was going through the air back then.

I did pūjā to the place where
the Teacher had been standing when
he, the Sage so Great, rose upward,
feeling well- pleased by my own hands.

In the eighteen hundred aeons
since I saw the Great Sage back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of region-pūjā.

In the eleven-hundredth aeon
I was known as Gosujāta,
a wheel-turning king with great strength,
possessor 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 Desapūjaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Desapūjaka Thera is finished.

- Translator: Jonathan S. Walters

- Editor: Ayya Vimala