[169. Samāadapaka1]
In the city, Bandhumatīi,
there was a large multitude2 [then].
I was most excellent of them,
and they were [all] my companions.3 (1) [2093]
Having called them all together
I [then] promoted good karma,4
“let’s build the unsurpassed merit-field,
the [monks’] Assembly, a building.”5 (2) [2094]
Those followers of my wishes6
agreed [by saying], “Excellent!”
and [when] they finished the building,
we gave7 it to Vipassi [then]. (3) [2095]
In the ninety-one aeons since
I gave [him] that building back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of giving buildings. (4) [2096]
In the fifty-ninth aeon [hence]
there was one lord of the people,
a wheel-turning king with great strength,
known by the name of ĀAveyya.8 (5) [2097]
The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (6) [2098]
Thus indeed Venerable Samāadapaka Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Samāadapaka Thera is finished.