Tha Ap 283Paṇṇadāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

– Paṇṇadāyaka Chapter, the Twenty-Ninth

281. Paṇṇadāyaka

Walt 2623-2624 Sitting in a room made of leaves,

I am feeding on leaves as food.

Siddhattha Buddha , the World’s Torch,

the Physician for Every World,

the Greatest Sage then did approach

me seated in that room of leaves .

I gave leaves to him when he was

sitting on a mat made of leaves. Verse 1-2

Walt 2625 In the ninety-four aeons since

I gave those leaves to him back then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that is the fruit of giving leaves. Verse 3

Walt 2626 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Paṇṇadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Paṇṇadāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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