Tha Ap 237Vediyadāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

235. Vediyadāyaka

Walt 2442 Happy, with pleasure in my heart,

I caused a railing to be made

at the superb base of Blessed

Vipassi’s Bodhi Tree. Verse 1

Walt 2443 In the ninety-one aeons since

I had that railing constructed,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of Buddha- pūjā . Verse 2

Walt 2444 In the eleventh aeon hence

I was named Sūriyassama,

a wheel-turning king with great strength,

possessor of the seven gems. Verse 3

Walt 2445 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Vediyadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Vediyadāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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