Tha Ap 75Saññaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

73. Saññaka

Walt 1431 I saw the Teacher’s ragged robe

stuck up in the top of a tree.

Pressing my hands together then

I worshipped that robe made of rags. Verse 1

Walt 1432 In the ninety-two aeons since

I did that good karma back then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

the fruit of perceiving Buddha. Verse 2

Walt 1433 In the fourth aeon after that

the Kṣhatriyan Dumasāra

was a wheel-turner with great strength,

victorious on all four sides. Verse 3

Walt 1434 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Saññaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Saññaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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