[161] I, a hunter, having plunged into the woodland forest, dwelt there;
seeing a punnāga tree in bloom, I recollected the supreme Buddha.
Having gathered that flower — sweet-scented, redolent with fragrance⁵ —
and having built a stūpa (thūpa) on the sand, I offered it up to the Buddha.
[Siam Raṭṭha edition footnotes (variant readings; Ma. = Burmese edition, Yu. = European/PTS edition):
#1 Ma.: "dhūpāyati …"; Yu.: "dhūpoti jalate tathā." #2 Yu.: "vehāsaṃ mama ditvāna."
#3 Yu.: "abhiropayiṃ." #4 Ma.: "ekatiṃse kappasate rājā āsi mahāraho"; Yu.: "… āsiṃ maharatho."
#5 Ma.: "gandhitaṃ subhaṃ."]
In the ninety-second aeon from now, when I offered that flower in worship,
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of worship of the Buddha.
In the ninety-first aeon I was the one named Tamonuda,
a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) endowed with the seven treasures, of great might.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha) as well,
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Elder Punnāgapupphiya speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Punnāgapupphiya is concluded.
The Tenth: the Apadāna of the Elder Kumudadāyaka (160)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.