Verses on Dhamma 10.11.p10

10.11.p10

Catasso hi sampadā nāma – vatthusampadā, paccayasampadā, cetanāsampadā, guṇātirekasampadāti. Tattha nirodhasamāpattiraho arahā vā anāgāmī vā dakkhiṇeyyo vatthusampadā nāma. Paccayānaṃ dhammena samena uppatti paccayasampadā nāma. Dānato pubbe dānakāle pacchā bhāgeti tīsu kālesu cetanāya somanassasahagatañāṇasampayuttabhāvo cetanāsampadā nāma. Dakkhiṇeyyassa samāpattito vuṭṭhitabhāvo guṇātirekasampadā nāmāti. Imassa ca khīṇāsavo paccekabuddho dakkhiṇeyyā, bhatiṃ katvā laddhabhāvena paccayo dhammato uppanno, tīsu kālesu parisuddhā cetanā, samāpattito vuṭṭhitamatto paccekabuddho guṇātirekoti catassopi sampadā nipphannā. Etāsaṃ ānubhāvena diṭṭheva dhamme mahāsampattiṃ pāpuṇanti. Tasmā so seṭṭhino santikā sampattiṃ labhi. Aparabhāge ca rājāpi iminā katakammaṃ sutvā taṃ pakkosāpetvā sahassaṃ datvā pattiṃ gahetvā tuṭṭhamānaso mahantaṃ bhogakkhandhaṃ datvā seṭṭhiṭṭhānaṃ adāsi. Bhattabhatikaseṭṭhītissa nāmaṃ akāsi. So gandhaseṭṭhinā saddhiṃ sahāyo hutvā ekato khādanto pivanto yāvatāyukaṃ ṭhatvā tato cuto devaloke nibbattitvā ekaṃ buddhantaraṃ dibbasampattiṃ anubhavitvā imasmiṃ buddhuppāde sāvatthiyaṃ sāriputtattherassūpaṭṭhākakule paṭisandhiṃ gaṇhi. Athassa mātā laddhagabbhaparihārā katipāhaccayena ‘‘aho vatāhaṃ pañcasatehi bhikkhūhi saddhiṃ sāriputtattherassa satarasabhojanaṃ datvā kāsāyavatthanivatthā suvaṇṇasarakaṃ ādāya āsanapariyante nisinnā tesaṃ bhikkhūnaṃ ucchiṭṭhāvasesakaṃ paribhuñjeyya’’nti dohaḷinī hutvā tatheva katvā dohaḷaṃ paṭivinodesi. Sā sesamaṅgalesupi tathārūpameva dānaṃ datvā puttaṃ vijāyitvā nāmaggahaṇadivase ‘‘puttassa me, bhante, sikkhāpadāni dethā’’ti theraṃ āha. Thero ‘‘kimassa nāma’’nti pucchi. ‘‘Bhante, puttassa me paṭisandhiggahaṇato paṭṭhāya imasmiṃ gehe kassaci dukkhaṃ nāma na bhūtapubbaṃ, tenevassa sukhakumāroti nāmaṃ bhavissatī’’ti vutte tadevassa nāmaṃ gahetvā sikkhāpadāni adāsi.

(There are four Attainments: Attainment of Substance, Attainment of Requisites, Attainment of Consciousness, and Attainment of Extraordinary Power. For example, an Arahat, or a person who has attained the Fruit of the Third Path, after he has arisen from a Trance of Cessation, is a worthy recipient of offerings. Attainment of Substance means acquisition of substance by such a person. By Attainment of Requisites is meant acquisition of requisites by righteous living and just dealing. By Attainment of Consciousness is meant a state of consciousness resulting from knowledge and associated with feelings of joy. It proceeds from the giving of alms in the three divisions of time: past, present, and future. Attainment of Extraordinary Power means acquisition of the state of a worthy recipient of offerings, after he has arisen from trance. Now this Arahat, this Private Buddha, deserved to receive offerings from Bhattabhatika, and the requisites the latter received by working for hire were the natural result of his righteousness. The Attainment of Consciousness was the result of a consciousness purified in the three divisions of time. The Private Buddha, as soon as he arose from trance, manifested the Attainment of Extraordinary Power. Thus arise the four Attainments; and through their supernatural power, even in this present life, men obtain splendor and glory. Therefore it was that Bhattabhatika received splendor and glory at the hands of the treasurer.)

Some time later, the king, hearing what Bhattabhatika had done, sent for him, gave him a thousand pieces of money in exchange for his bowl, bestowed rich treasure upon him, and gave him the post of treasurer. Thus he came to be called Treasurer Bhattabhatika.

Bhattabhatika became warm friends with the treasurer Gandha and ate with him and drank with him and slept with him. Having lived out his allotted term of life, he passed from that existence and was reborn in the World of the Gods. After enjoying celestial bliss in the World of the Gods for the space of an interval between two Buddhas, he obtained a new existence in the dispensation of this present Buddha in the city Sāvatthi in the household of a supporter of the Elder Sāriputta.

His mother received the treatment usual for the protection of her unborn babe, and after a few days the longing of pregnancy came upon her. Thought she, "Oh, that I might give food of rich flavor to the Elder Sāriputta and his five hundred monks! Oh, that I might put on yellow robes, take a golden vessel in my hand, sit down in the outer circle of the congregation, and partake of the food left uneaten by those monks!" Thus she did, and satisfied her longing. And on other festival occasions also she gave like offerings. Finally she gave birth to a son, and on the day appointed for the naming of the child she said to the Elder Sāriputta, "Reverend Sir, confer the precepts on my son." Said the Elder, "What shall be his name?" Said the mother, "Reverend Sir, from the day when he was conceived, no one in this house has experienced pain; therefore his name shall be Happy, Sukha Kumāra." The Elder gave him that name, and then conferred the precepts upon him.