Tha Ap 152Pallaṅkadāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

150. Pallaṅkadāyaka

Walt 1988 I gave Sumedha, the World’s Best,

the Blessed One, the Neutral One,

a well-made couch for him to use,

which had an upper covering. Verse 1

Walt 1989 At that time that well-made couch was

studded with the seven gemstones.

In accordance with my thinking,

that is always produced for me. Verse 2

Walt 1990 In the thirty thousand aeons

since I gave him that couch back then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that is the fruit of a couch- gift . Verse 3

Walt 1991 In the twenty-thousandth aeon,

there were three named Suvaṇṇābha,

wheel-turning kings with great power,

possessors of the seven gems. Verse 4

Walt 1992 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Pallaṅkadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Pallaṅkadāyaka Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Chatta, Thamba and Vedī,

Parivār’, Ummapupphiya,

Anulepa, Maggadāyī,

Phaladāyī, Vaṭaṁsaka,

Pallaṅkadāyī, fifty six

verses are thus declared herein .

The Chatta Chapter, the Fifteenth.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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