Tha Ap 505Kāsumāriphaladāyaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

500. {503.} Kāsumāriphaladāyaka

Walt 5408 I saw the Buddha, Stainless One,

the World’s Best One, the Bull of Men,

sitting down on a mountainside,

shining like a dinner-plate tree. Verse 1

Walt 5409 Happy, with pleasure in my heart,

hands pressed together on my head,

gathering kāsumāri fruit,

I gave it to the Best Buddha. Verse 2

Walt 5410 In the thirty-one aeons since

I gave that fruit to the Buddha ,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that is the fruit of giving fruit. Verse 3

Walt 5411 My defilements are now burnt up;

all new existence is destroyed.

Like elephants with broken chains,

I am living without constraint. Verse 4

Walt 5412 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 5413 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Kāsumāriphaladāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Kāsumāriphaladāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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