The Blessed One named Kosika,
Meditator, Trance-Loving One,
Buddha, Seclusion-Lover, Sage,
lived on Cittakūṭa back then.Plunged into the Himalayas,
attended by troops of women,
I saw him, Kosika Buddha,
like the moon on the fifteenth day.With a hundred flaming-torches,
I waited on him at that time.
Remaining seven nights and days,
on the eighth day I departed.With a pleased heart, having worshipped
the Self-Become, Unconquered One,
Kosika Buddha, when he rose,
I also gave one meal to him.Through that karma for the World’s Best,
the Biped-Lord, the Bull of Men,
I was reborn in Tusitā:
that is the fruit of that one meal.During the day and also at
night, there is always light for me;
on all sides for a hundred leagues,
I am permeated by light.In the fifty-fifth aeon hence
I was a king who turns the wheel,
lord of the grove of rose-apples,
victorious on all four sides.My city at that time was rich,
prosperous and well-constructed.
It measured thirty leagues in length,
and it was twenty leagues in width.My city was named Sobhana;
it was built by Vissakamma.
It did not lack for the ten sounds,
well-accompanied by cymbals.Nothing in that city was \[made
of\] sticks or of vines or of clay.
Everything was made out of gold,
and it was shining all the time.Four rampart walls surrounded it;
they were constructed out of gems.
In the middle, a palmyra
pond was made by Vissakamma.There were ten thousand ponds as well,
covered with pink and blue lotus,
covered with white lotuses too,
all exuding varied perfumes.In the ninety-four aeons since
I carried those torches for him,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
the fruit of carrying torches.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 Ukkāsatika Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Ukkāsatika Thera is finished.