198. Muṭṭhipūjaka

The Blessed One named Sumedha,
the World’s Best, the Bull of Men,
the Victor exerted himself,
with compassion for the lowly.

I presented to the Buddha,
Lord of Bipeds, the Neutral One,
doing walking meditation,
a handful of girinil blooms.

Because of that mental pleasure,
incited by those happy roots,
during thirty thousand aeons
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth.

In the twenty-three hundredth aeon
there was one man who had great strength,
a king whose name was Sunela,
possessor of the seven gems.

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!

Thus indeed Venerable Muṭṭhipūjaka Thera spoke these verses.