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Not far from the Himavant there stands a mountain named Gotama,
covered over with trees of many kinds, an abode for hosts of great beings (mahābhūta).
And in its very midst a hermitage had been fashioned;
attended by my own pupils, I dwelt in that hermitage.
"Let my companies of pupils come; let them bring me a lotus (paduma):
I shall perform worship of the Buddha (buddhapūjā), the Lord of the Two-Footed (dipadinda), the Steadfast One (tādī)."
Having assented, "So be it," they brought the lotus to me;
making the sign (nimitta) accordingly, I offered it up to the Buddha.
Then, gathering my pupils together, I admonished them well:
"Do not be heedless! Heedfulness (appamāda) brings happiness."
Having thus fully instructed my own pupils, patient of my words,
devoted to the virtue of heedfulness, I then met my death.
In the ninety-first aeon from now I offered up that flower:
I know of no bad destination (duggati) — this is the fruit of worship of the Buddha.
In the fifty-first aeon I was a king, Jaluttama by name,
a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) of great might, endowed with the seven treasures.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Padumapūjaka Thera speak these verses.
The Apadāna of Padumapūjaka Thera is concluded.
Summary (uddāna):
Sereyyaka, Pupphathūpi, Pāyāsa and Odaki, Thomaka,
Āsani, Phala and Saññī, Gandha- and Paduma-pupphiya:
one hundred and five verses, counted by those who see the meaning.
The Sereyya Chapter, the Thirteenth.
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The Fourteenth Chapter: the Sobhita Vagga
First: The Apadāna of Sobhita Thera (131)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.