Ālambanadāyaka Chapter, the Twenty-Third

[221. Ālambanadāyaka[1]]

I gave a plank for hanging [things]
to the Biped Lord, Neutral One,
the Blessed One, Atthadassi,
the World’s Best One, the Neutral One. (1) [2373]

I am ruling[2] the massive earth
[together with] the sea and sky.
I exercise[3] overlordship
among [all] creatures[4] on the earth. (2) [2374]

My defilements are [all] burnt up,
every existence is canceled.
The three knowledges are attained;
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (3) [2375]

In the sixty-second aeon
hence were three of the royal caste,[5]
[all were] named Ekāpassita,[6]
wheel-turning monarchs with great strength. (4) [2376]

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (5) [2377]

Thus indeed Venerable Ālambanadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Ālambanadāyaka Thera is finished.

  1. “Donor of a Plank for Hanging [Things On]” ↩︎

  2. lit., “entering”. I follow the BJTS Sinhala gloss in this reading. ↩︎

  3. lit., carry on ↩︎

  4. lit., “things that breathe” ↩︎

  5. lit., “kṣatriyans” ↩︎

  6. “Leaning on One” — reading the name as eka + apassita (RD: fr. apasseti, leaning against, depending on, trusting in), perhaps meant to be resonant with the donated wall-hooks ↩︎

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