Tha Ap 102Buddhūpaṭṭhāka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

100. Buddhūpaṭṭhāka

Walt 1606 Back then I was the conch-blower

for Vipassi, the Blessed One,

constantly engaged in service

to the Well-Gone One, the Great Sage. Verse 1

Walt 1607 Look at the fruit of that service

to the Neutral One, the World-Chief:

sixty thousand turiya -drums

are constantly attending me. Verse 2

Walt 1608 In the ninety-one aeons since

I served the Great Sage in that way,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of doing service. Verse 3

Walt 1609 In the twenty-fourth aeon hence

there were sixteen different kings then ;

all were named Mahānigghosa,

wheel-turning monarchs with great strength. Verse 4

Walt 1610 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Buddhūpaṭṭhāka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Buddhūpaṭṭhāka Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Sudhāpiṇḍa and Cela too,

Kammāra, Gandhamāliya,

Tipupphiya, Madhu, Senā,

Veyyāvacca and Dhammaka:

exactly sixty verses are

related in this chapter.

The Sudhā Chapter, the Tenth.

Then there is the Summary of Chapters:

Buddha Chapter is the first,

Sīhāsani, Subhūti,

Kuṇḍa-Dhāna and Upāli,

Vījani and Sakacittani,

Nāgasamāla, Timira,

with Sudhā Chapter they are ten.

There are fourteen hundred verses

plus another fifty-five.

The Ten Chapters called Buddha.

The First Hundred is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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