Tha Ap 211Ādhāradāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

209. Ādhāradāyaka

Walt 2309 A stool was donated by me

to Sikhi, Kinsman of the World.

Then I was the possessor of

all the land in this entire earth. Verse 1

Walt 2310 My defilements are all burnt up,

every existence is canceled.

I now possess my last body

in the Buddha’s dispensation. Verse 2

Walt 2311 In the twenty-seventh aeon

hence there existed four people

all named Samantacaraṇa,

wheel-turning monarchs with great strength. Verse 3

Walt 2312 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Ādhāradāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Ādhāradāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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