264. Araṇadīpiya

I, being reborn as a god,
coming down to the earth back then,
made a donation of five lamps,
feeling well-pleased by my own hands.

In the ninety-four aeons since
I donated that lamp back then,
I’ve come to no know bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of lamp-donations.

In the fifty-fifth aeon hence
there lived one ruler of the earth,
who was named Samantacakkhu,
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 Araṇadīpiya Thera spoke these verses.