On Candabhāgā River’s bank,
I was a monkey at that time.
I saw the Stainless Buddha who
was seated on a mountainside.

I was enraptured seeing him,
Shining Forth in All Directions,
like a regal sal tree in bloom,
Bearing the Great and Lesser Marks.

Happy, with my heart exultant,
and my mind bristling with joy,
I offered on the Buddha’s head
three lovely blue lotus flowers.

After offering those flowers
to Vipassi, the Greatest Sage,
approaching him respectfully
I then departed facing north.

Crouched over going off from there,
with a mind that was very clear,
I alighted on a mountain
and attained the end of my life.

Due to that karma done very well,
with intention and firm resolve,
discarding my human body,
I went to Tāvatiṃsa then.

And afterwards, three hundred times,
I ruled over the world of gods.
And furthermore five hundred times
I was a king who turned the wheel.

In the ninety-one aeons since
I did that flower-pūjā then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Tīṇuppalamāliya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Tīṇuppalamāliya Thera is finished.