Tha Ap 388Valliphaladāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

383. {386.} Valliphaladāyaka

Walt 3308 All the people, come together,

went into the forest back then.

Searching for fruit growing wild there,

they obtained such fruit at that time. Verse 1

Walt 3309 I saw him there, the Sambuddha,

the Self-Become, Unconquered One.

Happy, with pleasure in my heart,

I gave some valli fruit to him. Verse 2

Walt 3310 In the thirty-one aeons since

I gave Buddha that fruit back then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that is the fruit of giving fruit. Verse 3

Walt 3311 Being in Best Buddha’s presence

was a very good thing for me.

The three knowledges are attained;

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Walt 3312 My defilements are now burnt up;

all new existence is destroyed.

Like elephants with broken chains,

I am living without constraint. Verse 5

Walt 3313 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Valliphaladāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Valliphaladāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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