[46] 8.
"Divine is your delightful mango grove, and here stands a vast palace (pāsāda),
resounding with manifold instruments of music, echoing with a host of celestial nymphs (accharā);
and here a great golden lamp blazes perpetually,
and it is surrounded on every side by trees whose fruit is cloth.
Through what deed is this delightful mango grove yours, and this vast palace here?
Through what deed is your beauty such …
and your radiance shines in every direction?"
That deity (devatā), glad at heart, questioned by Moggallāna,
… of what deed this is the fruit:
"When I was a human being among humans, in a former birth in the world of humans,
I had a dwelling (vihāra) built for the Saṅgha, surrounded by mango trees.
When the dwelling was completed and finished, while the festival was being held,
having decked [the trees] with mangoes — the fruits fashioned out of cloth —
having lit a lamp there and fed the supreme assembly (gaṇuttama),
full of confidence, I presented it to the Saṅgha with my own hands.
Through that deed this delightful mango grove is mine, and here the vast palace,
resounding with manifold instruments of music, echoing with a host of celestial nymphs;
and here a great golden lamp blazes perpetually,
and it is surrounded on every side by trees whose fruit is cloth.
Through that my beauty is such …
and my radiance shines in every direction."
The Mango Mansion (Amba-vimāna), the eighth.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.