Tha Ap 308Sampasādaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

306. Sampasādaka

Walt 2740 “Praise to you, O Buddha-Hero!

You are the Clear One everywhere.

Calamity’s befallen me;

become the refuge for this me.” Verse 1

Walt 2741-2742 Siddhattha Buddha , in the world

the Peerless One, explained to me :

“The Monks’ Assembly, ocean-like,

is without measure, unexcelled.

Bring your heart pleasure in the monks

and plant the seed of happiness

there in that field which has no flaws,

which provides fruit without limit.” Verse 2-3

Walt 2743 Saying that, the Omniscient One,

the World’s Best, the Bull among Men,

after instructing me that way,

rose up into the sky, the sky! Verse 4

Walt 2744 Not long after the Bull of Men,

Omniscient One, had gone his way,

the time of my own death arrived;

I was reborn in Tusitā. Verse 5

Walt 2745 Then in that field which has no flaws

which provides fruit without limit,

in the monks, having pleased my heart,

I joyed an aeon in heaven. Verse 6

Walt 2746 In the ninety-four aeons since

I received that pleasure back then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of feeling pleasure. Verse 7

Walt 2747 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 8

Thus indeed Venerable Sampasādaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Sampasādaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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