[275. Ekañjaliya[1]]

I gave an open dwelling place
to the Recluse, the Greatest Sage,
dwelling in [the shade of] a fig[2]
on a [well-]prepared[3] mat of leaves. (1) [2600]

Raising my hands pressed together,[4]
I spread out a mat of flowers
for Tissa, the Best of Bipeds,
Lord of the World, the Neutral One. (2) [2601]

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. (3) [2602]

In the fourteenth aeon ago
I was a ruler of people,[5]
a wheel-turning king with great strength,
known as[6] Eka-añjalika.[7] (4) [2603]

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (5) [2604]

Thus indeed Venerable Ekañjaliya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Ekañjaliya Thera is finished.

  1. “One Salute” ↩︎

  2. udumbara, Sinh. dimbul ↩︎

  3. or “fixed,” “established” ↩︎

  4. lit., “Raising up añjali” ↩︎

  5. manujâdhipo, lit., “exerciser of power over those born of Manu.” ↩︎

  6. lit., “named,” “by name” ↩︎

  7. only slightly variant form with the same meaning as the this-life name, “One Salute” ↩︎

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