Tha Ap 289Apadāniya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

287. Apadāniya

Walt 2652 I praised the apadānas of

the Great Sages, the Well-Gone Ones,

and worshipped them, head on their feet,

feeling well- pleased by my own hands. Verse 1

Walt 2653 In the ninety-two aeons since

I praised the apadāna poems

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that is the fruit of extolling. Verse 2

Walt 2654 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 3

Thus indeed Venerable Apadāniya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Apadāniya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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