168. Dussadāyaka (THA-AP170)

In lovely Tivarā City,
I was the son of the king then.
After having received a gift,
I gave it to the Calm Buddha.

The Blessed One accepted it;
he touched the cloth with both his hands.
After accepting, Siddhattha
then rose up in the air, the sky.

When the Buddha was going away,
that cloth flew off behind him then.
I brought pleasure to my heart there:
‘the Buddha is the Top Person.”

In the ninety-four aeons since
I gave that cloth to him back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that is the fruit of giving cloth.

In the sixty-seventh aeon
there was a wheel-turning monarch,
a lord of people with great strength,
known by the name Parisuddha.

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!

Thus indeed Venerable Dussadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Dussadāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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