Apadāna numbers provided in {fancy brackets} correspond to the BJTS edition, which contains more individual poems than does the PTS edition dictating the main numbering of this translation.↩

“Silver Donor.” BJTS reads Mañcchadāyaka, “Bed Donor”.↩

the transmission of this apadāna is quite inconsistent with regard to the type of gift, and by extension the name of the arahant. BJTS reads “a single bed” or “a single couch” (mañccha). PTS alternatives include “one thing [he] wanted” (secchcha = sa-icchchā), “one pecchcha” (? uncertain meaning) and “one umbrella” (ekachattaŋ). The cty provides no comment, and the references to the gift in subsequent verses, and the name in the colophons, vary from manuscript to manuscript depending upon the term supplied in this verse by the various editors, so I see no way to suss out a “correct” reading. The same apadāna is repeated verbatim (except for adding the first two verses of the standard three-verse concluding refrain, missing from the present apadāna) below as #519 {522}, where PTS has Pecchchadāyaka and BJTS again gives Mañcchadāyaka. I follow PTS because it is the default text employed in this translation, but any of these is possible, and something different still is perhaps preferable, given that the intermediate fruit is stated to be receipt of various sorts of vehicles — was the original gift then a vehicle of some sort? Is the BJTS tradition that supplies mañccha predicated on an understanding of that term as a “couch” which is mobile, some sort of palanquin?↩

BJTS reads Mañcchadāyaka↩

BJTS reads Mañcchadāyaka↩