[151] The Self-Awakened One (Sayambhū), the unconquered, Sumedha by name,
fostering seclusion (viveka), plunged into the great forest.
Seeing a salaḷa tree in flower, I wove a garland (vaṭaṃsaka)
and offered it to the Buddha, the Leader of the World (lokanāyaka), face to face.
[Apparatus, as printed: 1. Ma (Burmese ed.): akkhubbhaṃ; Yu (European ed.): akkhobhaṃ. 2. Ma: nimmitāvhayā.]
Since I offered that flower, thirty thousand aeons ago,
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of the veneration of the Buddha (buddhapūjā).
Nineteen hundred aeons ago there were sixteen named Nimmita,
universal monarchs (cakkavattī) endowed with the seven treasures, of great might.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha) too,
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed the Venerable Vaṭaṃsakiya, the Elder, spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Vaṭaṃsakiya is concluded.
The Tenth: The Apadāna of the Elder Pallaṅkadāyaka (150)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.