Tha Ap 233Udakāsanadāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

– Udakāsanadāyi Chapter, the Twenty-Fourth

231. Udakāsanadāyaka

Walt 2424 Coming out from the ashram gate

I spread out a plank for sitting ,

and I served water in order

to obtain the ultimate goal. Verse 1

Walt 2425 In the thirty-one aeons since

I did that good karma back then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of seats and water. Verse 2

Walt 2426 In the fifteenth aeon ago

lived a man called Abhisāma,

a wheel-turning king with great strength,

possessor of the seven gems. Verse 3

Walt 2427 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Udakāsanadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Udakāsanadāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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