434. {437.} Ambāṭaka

Seeing the Buddha in the woods,
the Self-Become, Unconquered One,
having taken a hog-plum, I
gave it to the Self-Become One.

In the thirty-one aeons since
I gave that fruit to him back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that is the fruit of giving fruit.

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 Ambāṭaka Thera spoke these verses.