278. Āluvadāyaka

On a Himalayan mountain
flows the great Indus, beautiful.
There I saw the Passionless One,
the Radiant One, Beautiful.

Amazed after I had seen him,
Engaged in the Ultimate Calm,
I gave some bulbous roots to him,
feeling well-pleased by my own hands.

In the thirty-one aeons since
I gave those bulbous roots back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of bulbous-root-gifts.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Āluvadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.