384. {387.} Kadalīphaladāyaka

Walt 3314 I saw the Leader of the World,
shining like a dinner-plate tree,
like the moon on the fifteenth day,
blazing forth like a tree of lamps. Verse 1

Walt 3315 Having gathered some plantain fruit,
I then gave it to the Teacher.
Happy, with pleasure in my heart,
having worshipped him, I went off. Verse 2

Walt 3316 In the thirty-one aeons since
I gave Buddha that fruit back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that is the fruit of giving fruit. Verse 3

Walt 3317 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 4

Walt 3318 My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint. Verse 5

Walt 3319 The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Kadalīphaladāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Kadalīphaladāyaka Thera is finished.