Tha Ap 280Āluvadāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

278. Āluvadāyaka

Walt 2612 On a Himalayan mountain

flows the great Indus, beautiful.

There I saw the Passionless One,

the Radiant One, Beautiful. Verse 1

Walt 2613 Amazed after I had seen him,

Engaged in the Ultimate Calm,

I gave some bulbous roots to him,

feeling well- pleased by my own hands. Verse 2

Walt 2614 In the thirty-one aeons since

I gave those bulbous roots back then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of bulbous-root-gifts. Verse 3

Walt 2615 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered:

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Āluvadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Āluvadāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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