[496. {499.}^[1] Naḷakuṭikadāyaka^[2]]

In the Himalayan region,
there’s a mountain named Bhārika.^[3]
The Self-Become One, Nārada,
dwelt at the roots of a tree then. (1) [5341]

Having fashioned a house of reeds,
I covered it with grass [as thatch],
[and] clearing a walkway I [then]
gave [them] to the Self-Become One. (2) [5342]

Due to that karma done very well,
with intention and [firm] resolve,
discarding [my] human body,
I went to Tāvatiṃsa [then]. (3) [5343]

There my well-constructed mansion,
fashioned as a little reed hut,
[measured] sixty leagues in length, [and]
[it measured] thirty leagues in width. (4) [5344]

I delighted in the gods’ world
throughout fourteen aeons [back then],
and [later] seventy-one times,
I exercised divine rule [there]. (5) [5345]

And thirty-four times [after that,]
I was a king who turns the wheel.
[There was also] much local rule,
innumerable by counting. (6) [5346]

Ascending the Teaching-palace,
in all ways a fine metaphor,^[4]
I would live [there where I’m] wishing,
in the Buddha’s^[5] dispensation. (7) [5347]

In the thirty-one aeons since
I did that [good] karma back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
the fruit of a little reed hut. (8) [5348]

My defilements are [now] burnt up;
all [new] existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint. (9) [5349]

Being in Best Buddha’s presence
was a very good thing for me.
The three knowledges are attained;
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (10) [5351]

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (11) [5352]

Thus indeed Venerable Naḷakuṭikadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Naḷakuṭikadāyaka Thera is finished.