Having departed home with faith,
I went forth into homelessness.
Wearing robes made out of bark, I
placed my trust in asceticism.Atthadassi, the Blessed One,
the World’s Best One, the Bull of Men,
came to be in that period,
ferrying many folks across.All my strength was then exhausted,
due to a serious illness.
Remembering the Best Buddha,
making an excellent stupa
of sand, with a happy heart I
scattered golden kiṅkhani blooms,
by the thousands, on that stupa,
my mind full of exultation.As though facing the Sambuddha,
I attended on that stupa
with mental pleasure about him,
Atthadassi, the Neutral One.Reborn in the world of the gods,
I’m obtaining great happiness.
There I was the color of gold:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā.There I had eight hundred million
women dressed in their ornaments.
They’re waiting on me all the time:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā.There sixty thousand instruments,
bhera-drums and paṇava-drums,
conch-shells and deṇḍima-drums too,
speaking the lovely sound of drums.And also eighty-four thousand
elephants all-ornamented,
mātaṅgas rutting in three ways
and tuskers sixty years of age,
covered over with nets of gold,
always are attending on me,
and elephants equipped for war,
are not ever lacking for me.I am enjoying the result
of golden kiṅkhani flowers.
Fifty-eight times I exercised
sovereignty over all the gods.And seventy-one times I was
a king who turns the wheel of law.
On earth, a hundred and one times,
I exercised world-rulership.That one has now gained deathlessness,
unconditioned, hard to perceive.
The fetters have all been destroyed;
now there will be no more rebirth.In the eighteen hundred aeons
since I presented that flower,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that is the fruit of Buddha-pūjā.My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint.Being in Best Buddha’s presence
was a very good thing for me.
The three knowledges are attained;
I have done what the Buddha taught!The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!
Thus indeed Venerable Sovaṇṇakiṅkhaniya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Sovaṇṇakiṅkhaniya Thera is finished.