[116] At that time I was a deva-king, Varuṇa by name;
together with carriage-teams, troops, and mounts, I attended upon the Fully Enlightened One (Sambuddha).
[Siam ed. apparatus printed at this point: ¹ M. (Burmese), Yu. (European) editions: "senāsāvimhitā ahu"; ² M.: "padamuddhari cakkhumā".]
When the Lord of the World, Atthadassī, supreme among two-footed beings,¹ had attained final Nibbāna,
I took every instrument of music and went to the supreme Bodhi tree.
With instrumental music and with dance, furnished with every kind of cymbal,²
I attended upon the supreme Bodhi tree as though upon the Fully Enlightened One face to face.
Having attended upon that Bodhi, the tree sprung from the earth,
I folded my legs crosswise, and right there I met my end.
Gladdened by my own deed, confident in the supreme Bodhi,
through that confidence of mind (citta) I arose in the Nimmāna [Nimmānarati] heaven.
Sixty thousand instruments of music surround me at all times
as I fare on among humans and among devas, in existence after existence.
My three fires³ are extinguished; all existences have been uprooted;
I bear my final body in the dispensation of the Fully Self-Enlightened One (Sammāsambuddha).
In the five-hundredth aeon (kappa) from this one, there were thirty-four warrior-nobles (khattiya), Subāhu by name,
endowed with the seven treasures.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha) as well,
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's dispensation has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Elder Ekāsaniya speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Ekāsaniya is concluded.
[Siam ed. apparatus: ¹ M., Yu.: "Atthadassīnaruttame". ² M., Yu.: "sammatāḷasamāhito". ³ M., Yu.: "tividhaggī".]
The fifth: the Apadāna of the Elder Suvaṇṇapupphiya (115)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.