Tha Ap 179Ekadīpiya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

177. Ekadīpiya

Walt 2133 With a pleased heart and happy mind,

I gave a single lamp back then

at the superb Saḷala Bodhi

of the Sage, Padumuttara. Verse 1

Walt 2134 Transmigrating in existence,

reborn with great heaps of merit,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that is the fruit of a lamp-gift. Verse 2

Walt 2135 In the sixteen-thousandth aeon

there were these four different men then ,

all known by the name Candābha,

wheel-turning kings with great power. Verse 3

Walt 2136 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Ekadīpiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Ekadīpiya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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