All the people, come together,
were doing a great pūjā for
Vessabhu Buddha, Blessed One,
the World’s Best One, the Neutral One.Making a ball of pure alms food
and, happy, a floral garland,
I then offered them in front of
the lion-throne of the Buddha.All the people, come together,
are seeing that superb flower.
“By whom was this flower offered
to the Best Buddha, Neutral One?”Because of that mental pleasure,
I was reborn in Nimmāna.
I experience own-karma,
done well in the past by myself.In whichever womb I’m reborn,
whether it’s human or divine,
I am dear to all the people:
that’s the fruit of flower-pūjā.I’ve come to know no reviling
of self-controlled ascetics done
by me by means of my body,
nor with my speech nor through my mind.Because of that good behavior
and my mental resolution,
I am honored by all people:
that’s the fruit of not reviling.In the thirty-one aeons since
I did that flower-pūjā then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā.In the eleventh aeon hence
there was a king, Sahassāra,
wheel-turning monarch 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 Sumanāveliya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Sumanāveliya Thera is finished.