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tha-ap.192 Thera Apadana

Tivaṇṭipupphiya

All of them, gathered together,
are looking at me, overwhelmed.
Burning was produced in the minds
of those people who are looking.

At that time a follower of
Buddha Dhammadassi, the Sage,
known by the name of Sunanda
came into my vicinity.

Those who were my associates
gave me a flower at that time.
Taking that flower they’d given,
I gave it to the follower.

I passed away right on the spot
and then was reborn yet again.
In eighteen hundred aeons hence
I went into no place of grief.

In the thirteen hundredth aeon,
there were eight Dhūmaketunas,
wheel-turning monarchs with great strength,
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 Tivaṇṭipupphiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Tivaṇṭipupphiya Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Kuṭaja and Bandhujīvi,
Koṭumbarika, Hatthiya,
Isimugga and then Bodhī,
Ekacinti, Tikaṇṇika,
Ekacārī and Tivaṇṭī,
sixty two verses are told here.

The Kuṭajapupphiya Chapter, the Nineteenth.

- Translator: Jonathan S. Walters

- Editor: Ayya Vimala