Tha Ap 243Tuvaradāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

– Tuvaradāya Chapter, the Twenty-Fifth

241. Tuvaradāyaka

Walt 2462 I was a deer-hunter back then,

within a grove in the forest.

I brought the monks a vessel filled

with tuvara for them to eat . Verse 1

Walt 2463 In the ninety-one aeons since

I gave them that gift at that time,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that is the fruit of tuvara . Verse 2

Walt 2464 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 3

Thus indeed Venerable Tuvaradāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Tuvaradāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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