Tha Ap 456Tiṇukkadhāriya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

451. {454.} Tiṇukkadhāriya

Walt 4818 Happy, with pleasure in my heart,

I carried three grass torches at

the foot of the superb Bodhi

of Padumuttara Buddha. Verse 1

Walt 4819 In the hundred thousand aeons

since I carried those torches then ,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of giving torches. Verse 2

Walt 4820 My defilements are now burnt up;

all new existence is destroyed.

Like elephants with broken chains,

I am living without constraint. Verse 3

Walt 4821 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 4822 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Tiṇukkadhāriya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Tiṇukkadhāriya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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