Tha Ap 187Isimuggadāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

185. Isimuggadāyaka

Walt 2175 Like the rising hundred-rayed sun ,

like the sun when it had risen,

shining like royal ornaments,

the Lord was Padumuttara. Verse 1

Walt 2176 Grinding up some sage’s mung beans

in bee’s honey devoid of bees,

being established in pleasure,

I gave them to the World’s Kinsman. Verse 2

Walt 2177 Eight hundred thousand followers

of the Buddha were with him then.

Filling the bowls of all of them,

I provided a huge amount. Verse 3

Walt 2178 Because of that mental pleasure,

incited by those happy roots,

for one hundred thousand aeons

I was not born in a bad state. Verse 4

Walt 2179 In the forty-thousandth aeon

ago , they numbered thirty-eight,

those wheel-turning kings with great strength,

whose names were Mahisamanta. Verse 5

Walt 2180 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Isimuggadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Isimuggadāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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