Thomakavagga

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Therāpadāna (1) · Vol. 32 · Section 259

[259] Having made a spray of flowers (mañjarikā), as I was going along the street, I saw the foremost of ascetics, attended by the Saṅgha of bhikkhus. With a mind (citta) full of confidence, glad at heart, and with supreme rapture (pīti), raising it up with both hands, I offered it to the Buddha. In the ninety-second aeon (kappa) from now, since I offered that flower, I have known no bad destination: this is the fruit of the flower-offering. In the seventy-third aeon from now I was one lord of the earth, Jotiya by name, a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) of great power. The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha), the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled. Thus indeed the Venerable Mañjaripūjaka Thera spoke these verses. The Apadāna of Mañjaripūjaka Thera is concluded. The Eighth: the Apadāna of Paṇṇadāyaka Thera (258)

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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