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tha-ap.499 Thera Apadana

Udakadāyaka

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

Thus indeed Venerable Udakadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Udakadāyaka Thera is finished.

- Translator: Jonathan S. Walters

- Editor: Ayya Vimala