[14] There was a great company¹ of the Blessed One Siddhattha;
and they, gone for refuge to the Buddha, had faith in the Tathāgata.
Having all assembled and taken counsel, they were building a pavilion (māḷa) for the Teacher;
not obtaining a single pillar, they searched through the great forest.
Seeing them in the forest, I approached the company then;
raising my joined palms in reverence, I questioned the company.
Questioned by me, those virtuous lay followers (upāsakā) explained:
"We wish to build a pavilion, but a single pillar cannot be obtained."
"Grant the single pillar to me; I shall give it to the Teacher.
I will bring the pillar — may you be free from concern."
They bestowed the pillar upon me, confident, with gladdened minds;
then, turning back from there, they went each to his own home.
Not long after the company² had gone, I then gave³ the pillar;
delighted, with a delighted mind, I raised it up first of all.
Through that confidence of mind (cittappasāda) I was reborn in a celestial mansion (vimāna);
lofty was my dwelling, raised up seven stories high.
While drums were being sounded, I ever amused myself;
in the fifty-fifth aeon I was a king named Yasodhara.
#1–2 M., Yu.: mahāpūgagaṇo, °gaṇe. 3 Po., M.: ahāsahaṃ.
There too my dwelling was raised up seven stories,
furnished with a superb gabled chamber, single-pillared, delightful.
In the twenty-first aeon I was a warrior-noble (khattiya) named Udena;
there too my dwelling, seven-storied, was finely adorned.
Into whatever womb I am reborn — the state of a deva or of a human —
I experience all this¹: this is the fruit of the single pillar.
In the ninety-fourth aeon from now, since I then gave that pillar²,
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of the single pillar.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
Thus indeed the Venerable Elder Ekatthambhika spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Ekatthambhika is concluded.
Third: the Apadāna of the Elder Nanda (13)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.