261. Ākāsukkhipiya

Taking two water-born flowers,
I approached the Bull Among Men,
Siddhattha, gold-colored Buddha,
traveling around the bazaar.

I placed one flower down at the
two feet of the Best of Buddhas.
And taking the other flower
I threw it up into the sky.

In the ninety-four aeons since
I offered that flower to him,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of giving flowers.

In the thirty-second aeon
ago lived one lord of the earth
known as Antalikkhacara,
a wheel-turning king with great strength.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Ākāsukkhipiya Thera spoke these verses.