Tha Ap 499Udakadāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

494. {497.} Udakadāyaka

Walt 5298 Happy, with pleasure in my heart,

I filled the drinking-water jug

for the superb monks’ Assembly

of Padumuttara Buddha. Verse 1

Walt 5299 On a mountain top or bad road

or in any space on the earth,

if I wish for drinking water,

quickly it is produced for me. Verse 2

Walt 5300 In the hundred thousand aeons

since I gave that donation then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of giving water. Verse 3

Walt 5301 My defilements are now burnt up;

all new existence is destroyed.

Like elephants with broken chains,

I am living without constraint. Verse 4

Walt 5302 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 5

Walt 5303 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Udakadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Udakadāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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