[173]
On Mount Himavant there was a great natural lake (jātassara);
born there, I was a rakkhasa (demon), dreadful of form and of great strength.
There the kumuda (white water-lily) was in bloom; [its blossoms] grew as large as wheels;
and then I continually gathered the blossoms of the fruit-bearing [plants].
Then the Blessed One Atthadassī, the Lord of the two-footed, the Bull of men,
seeing the flowers closed up, came into my presence.
And when the Fully Enlightened One, the God of gods, the Bull of men, had drawn near,
I took up all the flowers and offered them to the Buddha.
As many garlands as there then were throughout the Himavant,
furnished with a canopy of that very extent the Tathāgata departed.
The flower that I offered eighteen hundred aeons [ago] —
[since then] I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of worship of the Buddha (buddhapūjā).
In the fifteenth aeon from this one there were seven lords of the people,
named Sahassaratha, universal monarchs (cakkavattī) of great might.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized: the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Kumudamāliya the Elder speak these verses.
The Apadāna of Kumudamāliya the Elder is concluded.
The Apadāna of Nisseṇīdāyaka the Elder, the second (172)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.