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tha-ap.250 Thera Apadana

Pāṭalipūjaka

Back then I placed upon my head
seven trumpet-flower blossoms;
I offered them to the Buddha,
Vessabhu, Supreme among Men.

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 flower-pūjā.

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!

Thus indeed Venerable Pāṭalipūjaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Pāṭalipūjaka Thera is finished.

- Translator: Jonathan S. Walters

- Editor: Ayya Vimala