Tha Ap 167Kaṇikāracchadaniya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

165. Kaṇikāracchadaniya

Walt 2072 The Sambuddha named Vessabhu,

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

the Sage entered a great forest

to take a rest one afternoon. Verse 1

Walt 2073 Having plucked dinner-plate flower s

I made him a canopy then.

Making that floral canopy,

I gifted it to the Buddha. Verse 2

Walt 2074 In the thirty-one aeons since

I offered those flower s to him ,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of Buddha- pūjā . Verse 3

Walt 2075 In the twentieth aeon hence

there were eight kings named Soṇṇābha,

wheel-turners who had great power,

possessors of the seven gems. Verse 4

Walt 2076 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Kaṇikāracchadaniya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Kaṇikāracchadaniya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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