Tha Ap 105Uppalahatthiya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

103. Uppalahatthiya

Walt 1623 I was living in Tivarā,

a garland-maker at that time.

I saw the Buddha, Stainless One,

Siddhattha, Worshipped by the World. Verse 1

Walt 1624 Happy, with pleasure in my heart,

I gave a handful of flowers.

In whichever place I’m reborn,

in accordance with that karma, Verse 2

Walt 1625 I enjoy the pleasant fruit of

what I did well, myself, back then.

I’m encircled by lovely flowers:

that’s the fruit of giving flowers. Verse 3

Walt 1626 In the ninety-four aeons since

I offered that flower to him ,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

the fruit of Buddha- pūjā . Verse 4

Walt 1627 Starting ninety-four aeons hence,

and excepting the present time,

there were five hundred kings who lived;

all were known as Najjupama. Verse 5

Walt 1628 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Uppalahatthiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Uppalahatthiya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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