Mandāravapupphiyavagga

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Therāpadāna (1) · Vol. 32 · Section 368

[368] The Fully Enlightened One (sambuddha), golden in complexion, walking amid the market street, resembling an ornamental pillar of gold, bearing the thirty-two excellent marks— seated in a splendid mansion, I saw him, the Leader of the World; holding aloft a kadamba flower, I made offering in homage to Vipassī. In the ninety-first aeon (kappa) from the present, that flower which I offered in homage¹— I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of worship of the Buddha (buddhapūjā). The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha), the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been done. Thus indeed did the Venerable Kadambapupphiya the Elder speak these verses. The Apadāna of the Elder Kadambapupphiya is concluded. ¹ M(aramma) ed.: "…buddhamabhipūjayiṃ" ("…I made offering in homage to the Buddha"). The Seventh: the Apadāna of the Elder Uddālakapupphiya (367)

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