[210. Vātātapanivāriya[1]]

With a mind [which was] very clear,
I gave a single umbrella
to the Blessed One [named] Tissa,
the God of Gods, the Neutral One. (1) [2313]

The badness[2] in me is suppressed;
there is achievement of goodness.[3]
Umbrella carried in the sky:[4]
the fruit of previous karma. (2) [2314]

[This is] my last transmigration,
all existences are canceled.
I [now] possess my last body
in the Buddha’s[5] dispensation. (3) [2315]

In the ninety-two aeons since
I gave that umbrella back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of umbrella-gifts. (4) [2316]

The seventy-second aeon hence
there were eight lords of the people,
[all] known as Mahānidāna,[6]
kings who were wheel-turning monarchs. (5) [2317]

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (6) [2318]

Thus indeed Venerable Vātātapanivāriya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Vātātapanivāriya Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Kaṇikāra and Vinela,
and Kiṅkinī with Taraṇa,
Nigguṇḍipuppha, ‘dakada,
Salaḷa and Koraṇḍaka,
Ādhāraka, Vātātapa:
there are eight and forty verses.

Kaṇikārapupphiya Chapter, the Twenty-First

  1. “Shielder from Wind and Heat” ↩︎

  2. pāpaŋ ↩︎

  3. kusala ↩︎

  4. lit., “They (the gods?) are carrying an umbrella in the sky” ↩︎

  5. lit., “Great Perfected Buddha’s” ↩︎

  6. “Great Origin (or reason, or cause)” ↩︎

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