275. Ký Sự về Trưởng Lão Ekañjaliya

“Udumbare vasantassa,

niyate paṇṇasanthare;

Vutthokāso mayā dinno,

samaṇassa mahesino.

Tissassa dvipadindassa,

lokanāthassa tādino;

Añjaliṁ paggahetvāna,

santhariṁ pupphasantharaṁ.

Dvenavute ito kappe,

yaṁ kariṁ pupphasantharaṁ;

Duggatiṁ nābhijānāmi,

santharassa idaṁ phalaṁ.

Ito cuddasakappamhi,

ahosiṁ manujādhipo;

Ekaañjaliko nāma,

cakkavattī mahabbalo.

Paṭisambhidā catasso,

…pe…

kataṁ buddhassa sāsanaṁ”.

Itthaṁ sudaṁ āyasmā ekañjaliko thero imā gāthāyo abhāsitthāti.

Ekañjalikattherassāpadānaṁ pañcamaṁ.

Walt 2600 I gave an open dwelling place
to the Recluse, the Greatest Sage,
dwelling in the shade of a fig
on a well-prepared mat of leaves. Verse 1

Walt 2601 Raising my hands pressed together,
I spread out a mat of flowers
for Tissa, the Best of Bipeds,
Lord of the World, the Neutral One. Verse 2

Walt 2602 In the ninety-two aeons since
I fashioned that mat of flowers,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of giving a mat. Verse 3

Walt 2603 In the fourteenth aeon ago
I was a ruler of people,
a wheel-turning king with great strength,
known as Eka-añjalika. Verse 4

Walt 2604 The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Ekañjaliya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Ekañjaliya Thera is finished.