At that time a great din arose
among the Tāvatiṁsa gods:
“The world’s Buddha has passed away
and we’re still afflicted with lust.”Among them who had thus been moved,
afflicted with arrows of grief,
made firm by my own mental strength,
I went into Buddha’s presence.Plucking a mandārava bloom,
tender, created with magic,
I then offered it at the time
of the Buddha’s Passing Away.All the gods and celestial
nymphs rejoiced for me at that time.
For one hundred thousand aeons
I was not born in a bad state.Sixty thousand aeons ago
there were born sixteen great people
all named Mahāmallajana
wheel-turning monarchs 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 Ekacāriya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Ekacāriya Thera is finished.