[123] A reciter (of the Vedas), a bearer of the sacred hymns, a master gone to the far shore of the three Vedas,
while standing in the open air, I saw the Leader of the World —
like a lion, a rover of the forest, like a tiger-king that knows no fear,
like a mātaṅga elephant, a tusker in threefold rut — the Great Seer.
Taking a sereyyaka flower, I flung it up into the sky;
by the Buddha's power they encircled him on every side.
The Great Hero, the All-Knowing One, the Leader of the World, made a resolve,
and all around they showered down a canopy of blossoms upon the Bull of Men.
Then that mantle of flowers, its stalks within and its blossoms facing outward,
having formed a canopy for seven days, thereafter vanished away.
And having seen that marvel, astounding, making the hair stand on end,
I made my mind (citta) confident in the Buddha, the Well-Gone One, the Leader of the World.
Through that confidence of mind, spurred on by the bright root (of the wholesome),
for a hundred thousand aeons I was not reborn in any bad destination.
In the fifteen-thousandth aeon there were twenty-five
wheel-turning monarchs of great might, all sharing the name Vilāmālā.
The four analytic insights and also these eight liberations,
the six superknowledges have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed the Venerable Sereyyaka Thera spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of Sereyyaka Thera is concluded.
The Apadāna of Pupphathūpiya Thera, the Second (122)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.