[119] When Vipassī, foremost in the world, relinquished the vital formation (āyusaṅkhāra),
the earth quaked — the ground that has the waters for its girdle.
My mansion too — covered over and spread out,¹ pure, ornate, and elaborate —
trembled at the exhaustion of the Buddha's life.
When the mansion quaked, terror arose in me:
"For what purpose, indeed, has this event come to pass?" A vast light appeared.
Vessavaṇa, coming here, calmed the great multitude:
"There is no danger to living beings;² be unified and reverent."³
"Oh, the Buddha! Oh, the Dhamma! Oh, the excellence of our Teacher —
he at whose arising the earth quakes through and through!"
Having proclaimed the majesty of the Buddha, I rejoiced in heaven for an aeon (kappa);
in the remaining aeons I did wholesome deeds.
It was ninety-one aeons from now that I gained that perception (saññā);
I know of no bad destination (duggati) — this is the fruit of the perception of the Buddha.
In the fourteenth aeon from now I was a king of great majesty,
Samita by name, a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) of great might.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed the Venerable Elder Buddhasaññaka spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Buddhasaññaka is concluded.
The Eighth: the Apadāna of the Elder Maggasaññaka (118)
¹ Ma. and Yu. (Burmese and European editions): "otataṃ vitataṃ mayhaṃ suvicittavaṭaṃsakaṃ"; Ma.: "vitataṃ vithataṃ."
² Ma.: "pāṇabhūte."
³ Ma. and Yu.: "susaṃvutā."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.