[134] On the bank of a broad¹ river there stood a milakkhu² tree in fruit;
while searching for that tree, I saw the Leader of the World.
Seeing a ketaka (screw-pine) in bloom, I then cut it at the stalk
and offered it up to the Buddha Sikhī, the Kinsman of the World.
That knowledge (ñāṇa) by which you attained the imperishable, deathless state —
that knowledge did I worship³, O supreme Buddha, O great sage.
Having made my offering⁴ to that knowledge, I saw the milakkhu tree;
I obtained that perception⁵ — this is the fruit of the offering to knowledge.
In the thirty-first aeon (kappa) from the present I offered up that flower;
I know of no bad destination (duggati) — this is the fruit of the offering to knowledge.
In the thirteenth aeon from the present there were twelve named Baluggata⁶,
wheel-turning monarchs (cakkavattī) of great might, 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 teaching has been fulfilled.
It was thus that the Venerable Elder Sudassana spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Sudassana is concluded.
Third: the Apadāna of the Elder Candanapūjaka (133)
[Siam-edition variant notes: ¹ M.: "Vinatā" (i.e., the river Vinatā). ² M.: "pilakkhuphalito ahu"; Yu.: "pilakkhaphalino" (pilakkhu/pilakkha, a fig tree). ³ M., Yu.: "abhipūjemi" ("I worship"). ⁴ Po.: "pūjayitvāna". ⁵ M.: "paññaṁ" ("wisdom"). ⁶ Numbered ๑ in the source (new page); the note's text is not reproduced in the excerpt.]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.