Tha Ap 108Udakapūjaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

106. Udakapūjaka

Walt 1639 I saw the golden Sambuddha

going in the path of the wind,

glistening like an oil-altar,

blazing up like a fire-altar. Verse 1

Walt 1640 Taking some water with my hand,

I tossed it up into the sky.

The Buddha, Compassionate, Sage,

Great Hero, then accepted it. Verse 2

Walt 1641 Standing in the sky, the Teacher,

whose name was Padumuttara,

discerning what I was thinking,

spoke this verse about me just then : Verse 3

Walt 1642 “Because of this gift of water

and the joy that he produced then ,

for one hundred thousand aeons

he’ll come to know no bad rebirth.” Verse 4

Walt 1643 Due to that deed for Buddha,

the World’s Best One, the Bull of Men,

I’ve attained the unshaking state

beyond all conquest and defeat. Verse 5

Walt 1644 In the sixty-five hundredth aeon,

there were three wheel-turning monarchs;

all were named Sahassarāja

lords over people on four sides. Verse 6

Walt 1645 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 7

Thus indeed Venerable Udakapūjaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Udakapūjaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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