[760] On one occasion the Venerable Vaṅgīsa was dwelling at Sāvatthī, in the Jetavana, Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.
Now on that occasion the Venerable Vaṅgīsa had but recently attained arahantship,¹ and, experiencing the bliss of liberation (vimuttisukha), at that time he spoke these verses:
"Intoxicated with poetry, we formerly wandered from village to village, from town to town;
then we saw the Fully Awakened One, and faith arose in us.
He taught me the Dhamma — the aggregates (khandha), the sense bases (āyatana), the elements (dhātu);
having heard his Dhamma, I went forth into homelessness.
Truly for the good of many the Sage attained awakening (bodhi) —
for the bhikkhus and for the bhikkhunīs who have reached and seen the fixed course (niyāma).
Welcome indeed was it for me — my coming into the presence of the Buddha:
the three true knowledges (vijjā) have been attained; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
I know my past abodes (pubbenivāsa); the divine eye (dibbacakkhu) has been purified;
possessing the three true knowledges, attained to spiritual power (iddhi), I am skilled in the ways of others' minds (cetopariyāya)."
The Vaṅgīsa Saṃyutta is concluded.
¹ Variant: the Burmese and European editions read *hutvā* ("having attained") for *hoti*.
The summary (uddāna) of it:
Nikkhanta and Arati, Pesalā-atimaññanā,
Subhāsita with Ānanda, Sāriputta and Pavāraṇā,
Parosahassa, Koṇḍañña, Gaggarā with Moggallāna,
with Vaṅgīsa — twelve.
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VANA SAṂYUTTA
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First: the Viveka Sutta
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.