[209. Ādhāradāyaka1]

A stool was donated by me
to Sikhi, Kinsman of the World.
[Then] I was2 the possessor of
all the land [in] this entire earth. (1) [2309]

My defilements are [all] burnt up,
every existence is canceled.
I [now] possess my last body
in the Buddha’s3 dispensation. (2) [2310]

In the twenty-seventh aeon
hence there existed four people
[all] named Samantaccharaṇa,4
wheel-turning monarchs with great strength. (3) [2311]

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (4) [2312]

Thus indeed Venerable Ādhāradāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Ādhāradāyaka Thera is finished.


  1. “Stool Donor”

  2. lit., “I am possessing”

  3. lit., “Great Perfected Buddha’s”

  4. “Walking All Around”. This is the BJTS reading; PTS spells the name Samantavaruṇa.