136. Ký Sự về Trưởng Lão Campakapupphiya

“Kaṇikāraṁva jotantaṁ,

nisinnaṁ pabbatantare;

Obhāsentaṁ disā sabbā,

osadhiṁ viya tārakaṁ.

Tayo māṇavakā āsuṁ,

sake sippe susikkhitā;

Khāribhāraṁ gahetvāna,

anventi mama pacchato.

Puṭake satta pupphāni,

nikkhittāni tapassinā;

Gahetvā tāni ñāṇamhi,

vessabhussābhiropayiṁ.

Ekattiṁse ito kappe,

yaṁ pupphamabhiropayiṁ;

Duggatiṁ nābhijānāmi,

ñāṇapūjāyidaṁ phalaṁ.

Ekūnatiṁsakappamhi,

vipulābhasanāmako;

Sattaratanasampanno,

cakkavattī mahabbalo.

Paṭisambhidā catasso,

…pe…

kataṁ buddhassa sāsanaṁ”.

Itthaṁ sudaṁ āyasmā campakapupphiyo thero imā gāthāyo abhāsitthāti.

Campakapupphiyattherassāpadānaṁ chaṭṭhaṁ.

Walt 1909 I saw Buddha, the Morning Star,
shining like a dinner-plate tree,
sitting down within a mountain,
surveying all the directions. Verse 1

Walt 1910 There were three young brahmin men then,
well-trained in their own brahmin arts.
Taking ascetics’ provisions,
they were coming up behind me. Verse 2

Walt 1911 In a bag were seven flowers
those ascetics had laid down there.
Having picked them up I gave them
for the knowledge of Vessabhu. Verse 3

Walt 1912 In the thirty-one aeons since
I offered those flowers to it,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of knowledge-pūjā. Verse 4

Walt 1913 In the twenty-ninth aeon hence,
a king known as Vihatābha,
was a wheel-turner with great strength,
possessor of the seven gems. Verse 5

Walt 1914 The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Campakapupphiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Campakapupphiya Thera is finished.