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# Therigatha

## Chapter IV -- The Four

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IV.1 -- Bhadda Kapilani {vv. 63-66}
[Hellmuth Hecker/Nyanaponika Thera, trans. From Maha Kassapa: Father of the Sangha (WH 345), by Hellmuth Hecker, translated from the German by Sister Khema, (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1987). Copyright ©1987 Buddhist Publication Society. Used with permission.]

> Son of the Buddha and his heir is he,
> Great Kassapa -- his mind serene, collected.
> Vision of previous lives is his,
> Heaven and hell he penetrates.

> The ceasing of rebirth he has obtained,
> And supernormal knowledge he has mastered.
> With these three knowledges possessed by him
> He is a brahman true, of threefold knowledge.

> So has she, too, Bhadda the Kapilani, gained for herself
> The threefold knowledge and has vanquished death.
> Having bravely vanquished Mara and his host,
> It is the last formation of a body that she bears.

> Seeing the world's deep misery, we both went forth
> And are now both free of cankers, with well-tamed minds.
> Cooled of passions, we have found deliverance;
> Cooled of passions, we have found our freedom.

Revised: Fri 12 April 2002