[374. {377.}[1] CChitapūjaka[2]]
When the Blessed One passed away[3] —
[the one] named “Ultimate Lotus”[4] —
when the stupa had been raised up,
I offered[5] [it] a sal flower. (1) [3257]
In the hundred thousand aeons
since I did that flower-pūjā,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of stupa-pūjā. (2) [3258]
Being in Best Buddha’s presence
was a very good thing for me.
The three knowledges are attained;
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (3) [3259]
My defilements are [now] burnt up;
all [new] existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint. (4) [3260]
The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (5) [3261]
Thus indeed Venerable CChitapūjaka Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of CChitapūjaka Thera is finished.
Apadāna numbers provided in {fancy brackets} correspond to the BJTS edition, which contains more individual poems than does the PTS edition dictating the main numbering of this translation. ↩︎
“Stupa- (or Shrine-) Worshipper” ↩︎
parinibbute ↩︎
jalajuttamanāmake, i.e., Padumuttara ↩︎
lit., did pūjā [with] ↩︎