Tha Ap 502Piyālaphaladāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

497. {500.} Piyālaphaladāyaka

Walt 5353 I was formerly a hunter,

wandering in the woods back then.

I saw the Buddha, Stainless One,

who was Master of Everything. Verse 1

Walt 5354 Carrying a piyāla fruit,

I gave it to the Best Buddha,

the Field of Merit, the Hero,

feeling well- pleased by my own hands. Verse 2

Walt 5355 In the thirty-one aeons since

I gave him that fruit at that time,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that is the fruit of giving fruit. Verse 3

Walt 5356 My defilements are now burnt up;

all new existence is destroyed.

Like elephants with broken chains,

I am living without constraint. Verse 4

Walt 5357 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 5358 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Piyālaphaladāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Piyālaphaladāyaka Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Kiṅkhani and Paṁsukūla,

Koraṇḍapupphi, Kiṁsuka,

Upaḍḍhadussī, Ghatada,

Udaka, Thūpakāraka,

Naḷāgārī is the ninth one,

Piyālaphaladāyaka.

There are one hundred verses here ,

and nine verses more than that too .

The Kiṅkhanipupphiya Chapter, the Fiftieth.

Then there is the Summary of Chapters:

Metteyya Chapter, Bhaddāli,

and Sakiṁsammajjaka too;

one chapter called Vibheṭakī,

Jagatī, Sālapupphiya,

Naḷamāla, Paṁsukūla,

and thus Kiṅkhaṇipupphiya.

There are eighty-two verses here

and also fourteen hundred more .

The Ten Chapters called Metteyya.

The Fifth Hundred is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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