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559. Sīvaka

Tha-ap 561

Flat stepping stones cross a clear stream toward a grassy bank.

Walt 6446 When Vipassi, the Sage So Great,
was going about as he wished,
seeing that his bowl was empty,
I filled it with barley porridge.

Walt 6447 In the ninety-one aeons since
I gave that alms food at that time,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of barley porridge.

Walt 6448 My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint.

Walt 6449 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!

Walt 6450 The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!

Thus indeed Venerable Sīvaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Sīvaka Thera, the ninth.

The Summary of That:

Yasa and Nadī-Kassapa,
Gayā, Kimbila, Vajjita,
two Uttaras and Bhaddaji
and Sīvaka the final one.

The Yasa Chapter, the fifty-sixth.

The Therāpadāna is finished.

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Translation by Jonathan S. Walters · SuttaCentral · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US

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Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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