494. {497.} Udakadāyaka

Tha-ap 499

Fresh silver-green shoots growing from an ancient olive tree.

Walt 5298 Happy, with pleasure in my heart,
I filled the drinking-water jug
for the superb monks’ Assembly
of Padumuttara Buddha. Verse 1

Walt 5299 On a mountain top or bad road
or in any space on the earth,
if I wish for drinking water,
quickly it is produced for me. Verse 2

Walt 5300 In the hundred thousand aeons
since I gave that donation then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of giving water. Verse 3

Walt 5301 My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint. Verse 4

Walt 5302 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 5

Walt 5303 The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Udakadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Udakadāyaka Thera is finished.

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