497. {500.} Piyālaphaladāyaka (THA-AP502)

I was formerly a hunter,
wandering in the woods back then.
I saw the Buddha, Stainless One,
who was Master of Everything.

Carrying a piyāla fruit,
I gave it to the Best Buddha,
the Field of Merit, the Hero,
feeling well-pleased by my own hands.

In the thirty-one aeons since
I gave him that fruit at that time,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that is the fruit of giving fruit.

My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint.

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!

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

Thus indeed Venerable Piyālaphaladāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Piyālaphaladāyaka Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Kiṅkhani and Paṁsukūla,
Koraṇḍapupphi, Kiṁsuka,
Upaḍḍhadussī, Ghatada,
Udaka, Thūpakāraka,
Naḷāgārī is the ninth one,
Piyālaphaladāyaka.
There are one hundred verses here,
and nine verses more than that too.

The Kiṅkhanipupphiya Chapter, the Fiftieth.

Then there is the Summary of Chapters:

Metteyya Chapter, Bhaddāli,
and Sakiṁsammajjaka too;
one chapter called Vibheṭakī,
Jagatī, Sālapupphiya,
Naḷamāla, Paṁsukūla,
and thus Kiṅkhaṇipupphiya.
There are eighty-two verses here
and also fourteen hundred more.
The Ten Chapters called Metteyya.

The Fifth Hundred is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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