Eighty-four thousand great people
renounced the world, nothing at all.
I gave precedence to them then,
wishing for the ultimate goal.In this world of lust and being,
they carefully attended on
the Undisturbed One, Lucid One,
feeling well-pleased by their own hands.Their Faults Destroyed, Defects Expelled,
they Did their Duty, Free of Fault,
Pervading all with Loving Hearts,
Self-Become Ones, Unconquered Ones;remembering those Sambuddhas,
having given service to them,
when the time of my death arrived,
I went to divine existence.In the ninety-four aeons since
I protected morals back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of being restrained.The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!
Thus indeed Venerable Pubbaṅgamaniya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Pubbaṅgamaniya Thera is finished.
The Summary:
Paṇṇa, Phala, Uggamiya,
Ekapupphi, and Maghava,
Upaṭṭhāka’s apadāna,
Pabbajja and Upaṭṭhaha,
and Pubbaṅgama; the verses
are counted as forty and eight.
The Paṇṇadāyaka Chapter, the Twenty-Ninth