Chapter One

It was so welcome for me

during the Gayā spring festival

to see the Awakened One

teaching the supreme Dhamma.

He was glorious, the tutor of a community,

a leader who had realized the highest.

In all the world with its gods,

he was the victor of unequaled vision.

A great giant, a great hero,

a great light free of defilement.

With the utter ending of all defilements,

the teacher fears nothing from any quarter.

For a long time, sadly, I was corrupted,

fettered by the bond of wrong view.

That Blessed One, Senaka,

released me from all ties.