CChitapūjaka[1] Chapter, the Thirtieth
[291. CChitapūjaka[2]]
At that time I was a brahmin,
known by the name of Ajita.[3]
Wishing to do a sacrifice,[4]
I’d gathered various flowers. (1) [2671]
After seeing[5] the burning pyre,
of Sikhi, Kinsman of the World,
gathering those flowers [again]
I strew [them] on [that burning] pyre. (2) [2672]
In the thirty-one aeons since
I did pūjā [with] that flower,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā. (3) [2673]
In the twenty-seventh aeon
hence, there were seven lords of men.
They were named Supajjalita,[6]
wheel-turning kings with great strength. (4) [2674]
The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (5) [2675]
Thus indeed Venerable CChitapūjaka[7] Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of CChitapūjaka[8] Thera is finished.
BJTS reads CChitaka° ↩︎
“Pyre-Worshipper;” BJTS reads CChitaka° ↩︎
“Unconquered” ↩︎
lit., “desiring to sacrifice a fire sacrifice”: āhutiŋ yiṭṭhukāma ↩︎
reading disvā with BJTS and PTS alternative for PTS katvā, “having made” or “making” ↩︎
“Well Lit Up” “Very Brilliant” “Hotly Burning” ↩︎
BJTS reads CChitaka° ↩︎
BJTS reads CChitaka° ↩︎