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tha-ap.178 Thera Apadana

Maggadattika

Anomadassi, Blessed One,
the Biped-Lord, the Bull of Men,
bringing happiness to the world,
walked back and forth across the sky.

Happy, with pleasure in \[my heart,
worshipping I scattered flowers.
The flowers stayed on his raised feet;
also on the top of his head.

In the twenty-thousandth aeon
there did live five different people
all named Pupphacchadaniya,
wheel-turning kings with great power.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Maggadattika Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Maggadattika Thera is finished.

- Translator: Jonathan S. Walters

- Editor: Ayya Vimala