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tha-ap.251 Thera Apadana

Bimbijāliya

The Victor Padumuttara,
Self-Become One, the Chief Person,
explaining the Four Noble Truths,
declared the path to deathlessness.

At that time I then spread out there
flowers called bimbijālika
and offered them to the Buddha,
Lord of Bipeds, the Neutral One.

In the sixty-eighth aeon hence
were four named Kiñjakesara,
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 Bimbijāliya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Bimbijāliya Thera is finished.

- Translator: Jonathan S. Walters

- Editor: Ayya Vimala