[10] The Victor (jina) named Padumuttara, the Self-Arisen One (sayambhū), the foremost of persons,
dwelt then upon Mount Cittakūṭa, before the Himavant.
There I was the king of beasts, fearless in form, ranging the four quarters,
at the hearing of whose⁵ roar many beings are cowed with fear.
Taking a full-blown lotus, I approached the Bull of Men;
to the Buddha, risen from concentration (samādhi), I offered it up.
*[Siam ed. footnotes to this page: (1) Ma. reads "isināme migāraññe"; (2) Yu. "migaraññe"; (3) Ma. "santipadamanuttaraṃ"; (4) Po. "Aññātakoṇḍañño," Ma. "Aññāsikoṇḍañño" — these refer to earlier lines of this apadāna; (5) for "whose" Ma. reads "tassa."]*
Having paid homage in the four quarters to the foremost Buddha, supreme among men,
and having gladdened my own mind (citta), I then¹ roared a lion's roar.
Padumuttara, the Knower of the World, the receiver of oblations,
seated upon his own seat, spoke these verses.
Recognizing the Buddha's utterance, all the devas assembled:
"The Best of Speakers has come; we shall hear that Dhamma."
Before them, filled with gladness, the Leader of the World,
the far-seeing Great Sage, proclaimed my roar:
"He by whom this lotus was given, and the lion's roar was roared —
him I shall proclaim; listen to me as I speak.
In the eighth aeon from now he will become a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti),
endowed with the seven treasures, lord over the four continents.
Sixty-four times he will exercise lordship² over the earth —
a wheel-turning monarch of great might, Paduma by name.
A hundred thousand aeons hence, one arisen in the lineage of Okkāka,
Gotama by clan, will be the Teacher in the world.
When that dispensation (pāvacana) has been proclaimed, he will be a kinsman of Brahmā (a brahmin);
renouncing brahminhood, he will then go forth.
Resolute in striving (padhāna), at peace, free from acquisitions (nirūpadhi),
having fully understood all the taints (āsava), he will attain Nibbāna, free from taints.
*[Siam ed. footnotes to this page: (1) for "then" Ma. reads "ahaṃ," Yu. "adāsahaṃ"; (2) for "lordship" Po. and Ma. read "issariyaṃ."]*
In a remote lodging, devoid of people¹, thronged with beasts of prey,
having fully understood all the taints, he will attain Nibbāna, free from taints."
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha) too,
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Elder Piṇḍolabhāradvāja speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Piṇḍolabhāradvāja is concluded.
The Eleventh: the Apadāna of the Elder Khadiravaniya Revata (9)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.