Tha Ap 137Rahosaññaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

135. Rahosaññaka

Walt 1902 Close to the Himalayan range,

there is a mountain called Vasabha.

My ashram is made very well

there at the foot of that mountain. Verse 1

Walt 1903 For three thousand years that brahmin

uttered his teachings at that time.

Drawing the students together,

he dwelt there, sitting to one side. Verse 2

Walt 1904 The brahmin master of mantras,

while sitting there off to one side,

searching the Buddha’s knowledge,

pleased his heart over knowledge then . Verse 3

Walt 1905 After after pleasing my heart there,

I sat on a mat made of leaves;

getting into lotus posture,

I passed away right on the spot. Verse 4

Walt 1906 In the thirty-one aeons since

I obtained that perception then ,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

the fruit of perceiving knowledge. Verse 5

Walt 1907 In the twenty-seventh aeon

there was a king, Siridhara,

a wheel-turner with great power,

possessor of the seven gems. Verse 6

Walt 1908 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 7

Thus indeed Venerable Rahosaññaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Rahosaññaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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