Tha Ap 258‘Pāhanadāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

256. ‘Pāhanadāyaka

Walt 2518 Back then I was the Buddha’s son,

a boy whose name was Candana.

I donated one of my shoes

when your Awakening occurred. Verse 1

Walt 2519 In the ninety-one aeons since

I donated that shoe back then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of a gifted shoe. Verse 2

Walt 2520 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances;

six special knowledges mastered:

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 3

Thus indeed Venerable ‘Pāhanadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of ‘Pāhanadāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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