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tha-ap.95 Thera Apadana

Aḍḍhacelaka

I gave a half a piece of cloth
to Tissa, the Blessed One then.
I was extremely miserable,
and plagued with an awful odor.

Giving that half a cloth I thrilled
in heaven for a whole aeon.
During the aeons that remained
I completed that good karma.

In the ninety-two aeons since
I donated that cloth back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that is the fruit of giving cloth.

In the forty-ninth aeon hence
there were thirty-two lords of men,
kings who turned the wheel of the law
known as Samanta-Odanā.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Aḍḍhacelaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Aḍḍhacelaka Thera is finished.

- Translator: Jonathan S. Walters

- Editor: Ayya Vimala