Thi Ap 10Udakadāyikā

– Therīpadāna

– The Legends of the Therīs

10. Udakadāyikā

Walt 116 In the city, Bandhumatī,

I was a water-fetcher then.

Living by carrying water,

I’m raising my children that way. Verse 1

Walt 117 “I lack the things to be given

in the unsurpassed merit-field.”

Going to a water-tower,

I supplied the Buddha water. Verse 2

Walt 118 Due to that karma done very well,

I went to Tāvatiṁsa then .

There I had a well-made mansion

fashioned by carrying water. Verse 3

Walt 119 I am surrounded all the time

by a thousand celestial nymphs,

and I always am surpassing

all of them in all the ten ways. Verse 4

Walt 120 I was fixed in the chief queen’s place

of fifty kings among the gods.

I was fixed in the chief queen’s place

of twenty kings who turned the wheel. Verse 5

Walt 121 Transmigrating in two stations,

the human or else the divine,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of giving water. Verse 6

Walt 122 On a mountain top or bad road,

up in the air and on the ground,

whenever I desire water,

I receive it very quickly. Verse 7

Walt 123 In times of drought my region’s not

scorched by the heat nor boiling hot;

discerning what I am thinking

a great rain-cloud always rains forth. Verse 8

Walt 124 Whenever I am sent somewhere,

with my assembly of kinsfolk,

if I am wishing for some rain

a great rain-cloud is then produced. Verse 9

Walt 125 Being burned or having fever

don’t ever affect my body;

on my body there is no dust:

that’s the fruit of giving water. Verse 10

Walt 126 Today with my mind purified

the evil-minded one is gone.

All my defilements are destroyed;

now there will be no more rebirth. Verse 11

Walt 127 In the ninety-one aeons since

I did that good karma back then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of giving water. Verse 12

Walt 128 My defilements are now burnt up;

all new existence is destroyed.

Like elephants with broken chains,

I am living without constraint. Verse 13

Walt 129 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 14

Walt 130 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 15

Thus indeed Bhikhhunī Udakadāyikā spoke these verses.

The legend of Udakadāyikā Therī is finished.

The Summary:

Sumedhā, Mekhalādadā,

Maṇḍapa, Saṅkamaṇḍalā,

Nalamālī, Piṇḍadadā,

Kaṭacchu, Uppalappadā,

Dīpad-Odakadā also;

the verses here are counted thus:

one verse and one hundred also

and seventeen added to that.

The Sumedhā Chapter, the First

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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