Tha Ap 174Nisseṇidāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

172. Nisseṇidāyaka

Walt 2112 I had a stairway constructed

for ascending up the palace

of Koṇḍañña, the Blessed One,

the World’s Best One, the Neutral One. Verse 1

Walt 2113 Due to that pleasure in my heart,

having attained great happiness,

I am bearing my last body

in the Supreme Buddha’s teaching. Verse 2

Walt 2114 In the thirty-one thousandth aeon

there were three people at that time,

kings who turned the wheel of the Law ,

all named Pahasambahula. Verse 3

Walt 2115 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Nisseṇidāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Nisseṇidāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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