209. Ādhāradāyaka (THA-AP211)

A stool was donated by me
to Sikhi, Kinsman of the World.
Then I was the possessor of
all the land in this entire earth.

My defilements are all burnt up,
every existence is canceled.
I now possess my last body
in the Buddha’s dispensation.

In the twenty-seventh aeon
hence there existed four people
all named Samantacaraṇa,
wheel-turning monarchs with great strength.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Ādhāradāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Ādhāradāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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