Tha Ap 49Sayanadāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

47. Sayanadāyaka

Walt 1202 I gave an excellent bedstead

covered with all of the bedclothes

to Siddhattha, the Blessed One,

Loving-Hearted, the Neutral One. Verse 1

Walt 1203 Then the Blessed One accepted

that appropriate bed-and-chair.

And having risen from that seat

the Victor flew up in the air. Verse 2

Walt 1204 In the ninety-four aeons since

I gave him that bed way back then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth;

that is the fruit of a bedstead. Verse 3

Walt 1205 The one called Varuṇa Deva,

possessor of the seven gems,

was a wheel-turner with great strength

in the fifty-first aeon hence . Verse 4

Walt 1206 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Sayanadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Sayanadāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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