On Candabhāgā River’s bank,
I was a monkey at that time.
I saw the Stainless Buddha who
was seated on a mountainside.I was enraptured seeing him,
Shining Forth in All Directions,
like a regal sal tree in bloom,
Bearing the Great and Lesser Marks.Happy, with my heart exultant,
and my mind bristling with joy,
I offered on the Buddha’s head
three lovely blue lotus flowers.After offering those flowers
to Phussa Buddha, the Great Sage,
cultivating great reverence,
I went off from there facing north.Crouched over going off from there,
with a mind that was very clear,
I alighted on a mountain
and attained the end of my life.Due to that karma done very well,
with intention and firm resolve,
discarding my human body,
I went to Tāvatiṁsa then.And afterwards, three hundred times,
I ruled over the world of gods.
And furthermore five hundred times
I was a king who turned the wheel.In the ninety-two aeons since
I did pūjā with that flower,
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 Tīṇuppalamāliya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Tīṇuppalamāliya Thera is finished.