The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

268 - Maṇimēkhalai feeds the Hungry
the joys of ceasing to be born, and thus implanted into his mind the
Four Truths of the first teacher of the Dharma.
Then the ninth ancestor of [201] Kōvalaṉ, your father, being an
intimate friend of the Cēra king had also the benefit of the instruction
as a result of the accumulated merit of his good deeds. Distributing
among the needy all the ancestral wealth that he inherited and all that
he himself had added to it, he erected for the Sugata (Buddha) this
Caitya of brilliant white stucco with its turrets reaching to the skies.
Since this was erected in order that those that live in this world might
visit it and destroy the evil attaching to them, I came here to offer
worship. Hearing from the holy ones here that Kāvēripaṭṭiṇam was
likely to be swallowed up by the sea, I made up my mind to stay here
alone.
Further your father who had lost his life as a result of evil deeds,
would appear as a god as a result of good deeds in his past existence.
Enjoying the result of all previous good deeds in that life, he would at
the end of this life be born along with his wife in the holy city of
Kapila 111 as he had the benefit of the Buddha’s teaching previously.
Listening to the teaching of the Buddha in that city, he will attain to
the end of living. 112 This I had heard from those who know the past,
present and future, and understood the drift of it. I also shall hear that
teaching on that day along with your father. Further since you had
learnt your past from Tuvadikan, the statuette on the pillar, I had
listened to the teaching of Aṟavaṇa Aḍigaḷ expounding the path of
good life. He is the cause of good to you, as is also the city of Kāñcī.
On the day that he left for Kāñcī, your mother and her companion
Sutamatī also left with him.
111 (Kapilavāstu).