Walt 4165 In the city, Haṁsavatī,
I was the son of a rich man.
I amuse myself all the time,
endowed with sensual pleasures. Verse 1Walt 4166 Ascending one palace of three
raised up for me by architects,
I amuse myself constantly
with dancing and with singing there. Verse 2Walt 4167 Musical instruments played for
me, keep up the right melody.
All of the women are dancing;
they’re carrying my mind away. Verse 3Walt 4168 Head-twisters, tiny dwarf-dancers,
bower-crouchers, in-the-middlers,
leapers and comedy-dancers
are always entertaining me. Verse 4Walt 4169 Cymbal-beaters, kumbhathūn-ers,
many dancers, puppet-masters;
those dancers and puppet-masters
are always entertaining me. Verse 5Walt 4170 Bath boys and those who dress the hair,
cooks, garland-makers, dice-players,
all the boxers and the wrestlers
are always entertaining me. Verse 6Walt 4171 When those well-trained professionals
are playing at those different arts,
I do not know the night from day,
like Indra with the thirty gods. Verse 7Walt 4172 Wayfarers, people on the road,
beggars and many travelers,
they are always approaching me,
and taking their meals at my house. Verse 8Walt 4173 Buddhist monks and also brahmins,
the unexcelled fields for merit,
working to increase my merit
are also coming to my house. Verse 9Walt 4174All the Jains: the Padakas the
Laṭakas, Pupphasāṭakas,
Tedaṇḍakas, Ekasikhas
are also coming to my house. Verse 10Walt 4175Ājīvikas: the Godhammas,
Viluttāvīs, Devadhammis,
and the Rajojalladharas,
are also coming to my house. Verse 11Walt 4176Ascetics and forest dwellers:
Parivattakas, Siddhipattas
many Koṇḍas, Puggalikas,
are also coming to my house. Verse 12Walt 4177Oḍḍakas, also Damiḷas,
Sākulas, Malayāḷakas,
Sabaras, and Yonakas too
are also coming to my house. Verse 13Walt 4178Andhakas, all the Muṇḍakas,
Kolakas, Sānuvindakas,
and Ārāvacīnaraṭṭhas
are also coming to my house. Verse 14Walt 4179Alasandakas, Pallavakas,
Babbaras, Bhagga-kārusas,
Rohitas and Cetaputtas,
are also coming to my house. Verse 15Walt 4180Madhurakas, Kosalakas,
Kāsikas, Hatthiporakas,
Isiṇḍas, and Matthalas too
are also coming to my house. Verse 16Walt 4181Velāvakas and Arammas,
Okkalas, many Mekalas,
Khuddakas and Suddakas too
are also coming to my house. Verse 17Walt 4182Rohanas, also Sindhavas,
Cittas and Ekakaṇṇikas,
Suraṭṭhas and Aparantas
are also coming to my house. Verse 18Walt 4183Suppārikas, Kikumāras
Malayas, Soṇṇabhūmakas,
Vajjihāras too, all of them
are also coming to my house. Verse 19Walt 4184 Basket-makers, also weavers,
leather workers and carpenters,
metal-smiths as well as potters
are also coming to my house. Verse 20Walt 4185 Gem-sellers and bronze-purveyors,
workers in gold and cloth-merchants,
and those who work in tin, they all
are also coming to my house. Verse 21Walt 4186 Fletchers and the makers of bows,
weavers and makers of perfumes,
as well as tailors, all of them
are also coming to my house. Verse 22Walt 4187 Oil-handlers and wood-gatherers,
water-carriers and servants,
cooks and those who protect the soup
are also coming to my house. Verse 23Walt 4188 Gate-keepers and sentinels,
eulogizers, flower-pluckers,
elephant riders and keepers
are also coming to my house. Verse 24Walt 4189 I gave wealth to the indolent
Maharaja named Ānanda,
covering his deficiency
with gems of the seven colors. Verse 25Walt 4190 I satisfied with gemstones all
those people who were praised by me,
the multi-colored populace,
discerning what they were thinking. Verse 26Walt 4191 When the lovely words were spoken,
when the drums were being sounded,
when the conch-shells were being blown,
I’m delighting in my own house. Verse 27Walt 4192 The Buddha in that period
was Leader Padumuttara.
He was with one hundred thousand
whose defilements were now extinct. Verse 28Walt 4193 The Eyeful One had gone onto
the road, together with the monks.
Lighting up Every Direction,
he blazed forth like a tree of lamps. Verse 29Walt 4194 They all are pounding on their drums
for the traveling World-Leader.
His brilliant light is being shed,
like the sun when it has risen. Verse 30Walt 4195 Even behind paneled windows
not penetrated by its rays,
all the time, inside the houses,
there was an enormous brilliance. Verse 31Walt 4196 After seeing the Buddha’s light,
I said to the assemblymen,
“Without a doubt the Best Buddha
is this one going on the road.” Verse 32Walt 4197 Having come down from the palace,
I quickly went to the bazaar.
Having greeted the Sambuddha,
I spoke these words to him back then: Verse 33Walt 4198 “O may the Buddha pity me,
the Leader named Supreme Lotus.”
The Sage then consented to come,
with the hundred thousand masters. Verse 34Walt 4199 Thus inviting the Sambuddha,
I led him to my own great house.
There I satisfied the Great Sage
with food to eat and drinks to drink. Verse 35Walt 4200 Knowing it grew too late to eat
for the Best Buddha, Neutral One,
I served the Best Buddha with a
hundred musical instruments. Verse 36Walt 4201 Padumuttara, World-Knower,
Sacrificial Recipient,
sitting down inside my own house,
spoke these verses about me then: Verse 37Walt 4202 “He who served me with instruments,
and who gave me alms food and drink,
I shall relate details of him;
all of you listen to my words: Verse 38Walt 4203 This man is going to make the whole
world into a single kingdom.
Possessing gold, possessing wealth,
he’ll be one with abundant food. Verse 39Walt 4204 Undertaking the five precepts,
and then the ten ways of acting;
undertaking, making progress,
he will then train his retinue. Verse 40Walt 4205 Sixty thousand instruments and
women who are all-adorned
will play for this one constantly:
that is the fruit of attendance. Verse 41Walt 4206 For thirty thousand aeons he
will delight in the world of gods.
Sixty-four times the lord of gods,
he will exercise divine rule. Verse 42Walt 4207 And seventy-four times he’ll be
a king who turns the wheel of law,
and there will be much local rule,
innumerable by counting. Verse 43Walt 4208 In one hundred thousand aeons,
arising in Okkāka’s clan,
the one whose name is Gotama
will be the Teacher in the world. Verse 44Walt 4209 In whichever womb he’s reborn,
whether it’s human or divine,
being one with no lack of wealth,
he will go to the human state. Verse 45Walt 4210 Having become a learned man,
a master of the three Vedas,
this one will wander the whole earth,
searching for ultimate meaning. Verse 46Walt 4211 And afterwards he will go forth,
incited by his wholesome roots.
He’ll thrill in the dispensation
of Gotama, the Blessed One. Verse 47Walt 4212 After pleasing the Sambuddha,
Gotama, Bull of the Śākyas,
having burnt up his defilements,
this one will become an arahant.” Verse 48Walt 4213 Like a tiger-king in the woods,
like a lion, king of the beasts,
today I’m living without fear
in the Buddha’s dispensation. Verse 49Walt 4214 I do not see me being born
in want or in a bad rebirth
in the world of gods or people:
that is the fruit of attendance. Verse 50Walt 4215 I’m now intent on seclusion,
calmed, devoid of grounds for rebirth;
like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint. Verse 51Walt 4216 My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint. Verse 52Walt 4217 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 53Walt 4218 The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 54
Thus indeed Venerable Jatukaṇṇika Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Jatukaṇṇika Thera is finished.