I was a learned mantra-knower
who had mastered the three Vedas.
Heading up my group of students
I approached him, the Best of Men.

Padumuttara, World-Knower,
Sacrificial Recipient,
the Great Sage then proclaimed to me
karma, with the explanation.

After having heard the Teaching,
and having worshipped the Teacher
I held my hands up pressed together
then departed facing the south.

Having heard the explanation
I then preached with more expansion.
All the students were delighted
to have listened to my words then.

Quitting my own philosophy
my heart was pleased in the Buddha.
Then I preached with explanation
and with the further expansion.

A knower of Abhidhamma
clear about the Kathāvatthu,
providing instruction to all,
I’m living without defilements.

Five hundred aeons after that
I was lord of four continents,
the clever Suppakāsaka
possessor of the seven gems.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Puṇṇa Mantāṇiputta Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Puṇṇa Mantāṇiputta Thera is finished.