Coming here from Tāvatiṁsa,
I was a man named Maṅgala.
Taking a mandārava bloom,
I carried it over the head
of Vipassi Buddha, Great Sage,
seated then in meditation.
I carried it thus for a week,
then returned to the world of gods.In the ninety-one aeons since
I did pūjā to the Buddha,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā.The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!
Thus indeed Venerable Ekamandāriya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Ekamandāriya Thera is finished.