433. {436.} Kalambadāyaka

The Sambuddha named Romasa
was living on a mountainside.
I gave bindweed to that Buddha,
feeling well-pleased by my own hands.

In the ninety-four aeons since
I gave that donation back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of giving bindweed.

My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint.

Being in Best Buddha’s presence
was a very good thing for me.
The three knowledges are attained;
I have done what the Buddha taught!

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

Thus indeed Venerable Kalambadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.