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Not far from the Himavant I dwelt upon a spread of leaves;
fallen into greed for food, I was then one given simply to lying down.¹
Digging up² yams (ālu) and kalamba tubers, and biḷāli and takkaḷa bulbs,
and having brought jujube, marking-nut, and bael³ fruit, [the offering] was made ready.
Padumuttara, the Knower of the World, the receiver of oblations,
knowing my intention, came into my presence.
When that great nāga, the god of gods, the bull of men, had drawn near,
I took up the biḷāli and poured it into his bowl.
The Great Hero partook of it then, gladdening me;
and when he had eaten, the All-Knowing One spoke this verse:
"Having brought serene confidence to your own mind, you have given the biḷāli to me:
for a hundred thousand aeons (kappa) you shall not be reborn in a bad destination (duggati)."
My final [existence] is now proceeding; all existences have been utterly uprooted;
I bear my last body in the dispensation of the Fully Self-Enlightened One.
In the fifty-fourth aeon from now, [I was] the one named Sumekhalima,
a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) endowed with the seven treasures, of great might.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed the Venerable Biḷālidāyaka the Elder spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Biḷālidāyaka is concluded.
The tenth: the Apadāna of the Elder Reṇupūjaka (110)
[Variant readings, Siam ed. footnotes: ¹ Burmese ed.: "seyyalolo cahaṃ tadā" ("and I was then greedy for lying down"). ² Burmese and European eds.: "khanatālukalambāni." ³ Burmese ed.: "billaṃ."]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.