Tha Ap 380Sumanatālavaṇṭiya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

375. {378.} Sumanatālavaṇṭiya

Walt 3262 I gave a fan of palmyra,

covered with jasmine flowers, to

Siddhattha, the Blessed One, and

bore it for the Greatly Famed One. Verse 1

Walt 3263 In the ninety-four aeons since

I gave that palmyra fan then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of palmyra fans. Verse 2

Walt 3264 My being in Buddha’s presence

was a very good thing for me.

The three knowledges are attained;

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 3

Walt 3265 My defilements are now burnt up;

all new existence is destroyed.

Like elephants with broken chains,

I am living without constraint. Verse 4

Walt 3266 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Sumanatālavaṇṭiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Sumanatālavaṇṭiya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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