310. Pabbhāradāyaka (THA-AP312)

I cleaned up a mountain cave
for Piyadassi, the Blessed One,
and looked after the water pot
for the Neutral One’s consumption.

Piyadassi, the Greatest Sage,
the Buddha, explained that for me
“a mil-kaṇḍa cent-bheṇḍu large
sacrifice post will come to be,
made out of gold, covered in flags;
a not small group of gems as well.”
Having given a mountain cave,
I joyed an aeon in heaven.

In the thirty-second aeon
lived the ruler named Susuddha,
a wheel-turning king with great strength,
possessor of the seven gems.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Pabbhāradāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Pabbhāradāyaka Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Kesara, Gandha and Anna,
Dhammasañña and Phala too,
Pasāda, Ārāmadāyi,
Lomaka, Buddhasaññaka,
and Pabbhārada; the verses,
they say, are one less than fifty.

The Padumakesariya Chapter, the Thirty-First

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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