On a rough spot on the highway,
I caused a bridge to be fashioned
for the sake of the world’s crossing,
feeling well-pleased by my own hands.In the ninety-one aeons since
that bridge got constructed by me,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of giving a bridge.In the fifty-fifth aeon hence
there was one man, Samogadha,
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 Taraṇiya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Taraṇiya Thera is finished.
The Summary:
Sovaṇṇa and Tilamuṭṭhi,
Caṅkot’, Abbhañjam, Añjali,
Potthaka, Citaka, Māla,
Ekapuṇḍari, Setuna:
when the verses are counted by
wise people there are forty-two.
The Suvaṇṇabimbohana Chapter, the Twenty-Eighth