In the Himalayan region
there was a great lake full of life.
It was covered with lotuses
and was the lair of varied birds.

I was living in that region,
bathing and drinking in that lake.
I saw the Top Among the Monks
traveling across the sky then.

Discerning what I was thinking,
the Teacher, Peerless in the World,
having descended from the sky,
stood on the ground there at that time.

Taking some grass cut with a horn
I gave him a mat to sit on.
The Blessed One did sit down there,
Tissa the Guide of the Whole World.

Bringing pleasure to my own heart,
I then worshipped the World-Leader.
Crouched over I went off from there
thinking about the Sage so Great.

Due to that pleasure in my heart,
I was reborn in Nimmāna.
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that is the fruit of a mat-gift.

I was King Migasammata
in the second aeon ago,
a wheel-turner with great power,
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 Tiṇasanthāraka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Tiṇasanthāradāyaka Thera is finished.