Tha Ap 295Chattadāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

293. Chattadāyaka

Walt 2681 My son was a renouncer then,

wearing a saffron-colored robe.

He had realized Buddhahood

and nirvana, Lamp of the World. Verse 1

Walt 2682 Finding out about my own son,

afterwards I went to that place,

I went to the funeral pyre

of the Great One who’d passed away. Verse 2

Walt 2683 Pressing my hands together there,

I worshipped the funeral pyre,

and taking a white umbrella

I raised it up there at that time. Verse 3

Walt 2684 In the ninety-four aeons since

I offered that white umbrella,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

the fruit of giving umbrellas. Verse 4

Walt 2685 In the twenty-fifth aeon hence

there were seven lords of people

whose names all were Mahārahā,

wheel-turning monarchs with great strength. Verse 5

Walt 2686 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Chattadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Chattadāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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