Tha Ap 178Maggadattika

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

176. Maggadattika

Walt 2129 Anomadassi, Blessed One,

the Biped-Lord, the Bull of Men,

bringing happiness to the world,

walked back and forth across the sky. Verse 1

Walt 2130 Happy, with pleasure in \[my heart,

worshipping I scattered flower s .

The flowers stayed on his raised feet;

also on the top of his head. Verse 2

Walt 2131 In the twenty-thousandth aeon

there did live five different people

all named Pupphacchadaniya,

wheel-turning kings with great power. Verse 3

Walt 2132 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Maggadattika Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Maggadattika Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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