Tha Ap 466Setudāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

461. {464.} Setudāyaka

Walt 4879 Happy, with pleasure in my heart,

I had a causeway constructed,

near the meditation walkway

of Vipassi, the Blessed One. Verse 1

Walt 4880 In the ninety-one aeons since

I had that causeway made back then ,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that is the fruit of a causeway. Verse 2

Walt 4881 My defilements are now burnt up;

all new existence is destroyed.

Like elephants with broken chains,

I am living without constraint. Verse 3

Walt 4882 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 4883 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Setudāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Setudāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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