Thomaka Chapter, the Twenty-Sixth

[251. Thomadāyaka[1]]

Standing[2] in the world of the gods,
having listened to the Teaching[3]
of Vipassi [Buddha], Great Sage,
satisfied[4] I uttered these words:[5] (1) [2499]

“Praise to you, O Well-Bred Person![6]
Praise to you, Ultimate Person!
[While] explaining the deathless state
you ferry many folks across.” (2) [2500]

In the ninety-one aeons since
I uttered that speech at that time,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of [speaking] praises. (3) [2501]

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (4) [2502]

Thus indeed Venerable Thomadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Thomadāyaka Thera is finished.

  1. “Praise-Giver” ↩︎

  2. lit., “being standing,” ṭhito santo, i.e., “while I was standing” ↩︎

  3. dhammaŋ ↩︎

  4. mudito not muditā ↩︎

  5. lit., “this speech” “this word” ↩︎

  6. purisājañña, RD “steed of man,” in the voc. Contracted form of ājāniya/ājānīya, “almost exclusively used to donate a thoroughbred horse” ↩︎

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