Buddhism · Sutta Pitaka · Minor Collection (Khuddaka)

Thag, poem 202

Vaḍḍha · Vaḍḍhattheragāthā

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Oh so well was the goad shown to me by my mother, on hearing whose words, advised by my mother, energetic and resolute, I realized supreme awakening.

“Sādhū hi kira me mātā, Patodaṁ upadaṁsayi; Yassāhaṁ vacanaṁ sutvā, Anusiṭṭho janettiyā; Āraddhavīriyo pahitatto, Patto sambodhimuttamaṁ.

I’m perfected, worthy of offerings, master of the three knowledges, seer of freedom from death. I’ve conquered the army of Namuci, and live without defilements.

Arahā dakkhiṇeyyomhi, tevijjo amataddaso; Jetvā namucino senaṁ, viharāmi anāsavo.

Those defilements that were found in me, internally and externally, are all cut off without remainder, and will not arise again.

Ajjhattañca bahiddhā ca, ye me vijjiṁsu āsavā; Sabbe asesā ucchinnā, na ca uppajjare puna.

My self-assured sister said this to me: ‘Now neither you nor I have any snarls.’

Visāradā kho bhaginī, etamatthaṁ abhāsayi; ‘Apihā nūna mayipi, vanatho te na vijjati’.

Suffering is at an end; this bag of bones is my last in the transmigration through births and deaths; now there’ll be no more future lives.”

Pariyantakataṁ dukkhaṁ, antimoyaṁ samussayo; Jātimaraṇasaṁsāro, natthi dāni punabbhavo”ti. … Vaḍḍho thero ….