[181] In the city of Bandhumatī I was a physician, well trained,
a bringer of happiness to the great multitude of the afflicted who suffered sorely.¹
Seeing an ascetic who was ill — virtuous, of great splendor —
with a confident mind (citta), glad at heart, I then gave him medicine.
By that very medicine the ascetic, his faculties restrained, became free from disease —
Asoka by name, the attendant of Vipassī.
Ninety-one aeons from now it was that I gave that remedy;
I know of no bad destination: this is the fruit of medicine.
And in the eighth aeon from now I was a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) of great power,
bearing the name Sabbosatha, endowed with the seven treasures.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been done.
Thus indeed the Venerable Tikicchaka the Elder spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of Tikicchaka the Elder is concluded.
#1 M.: "sadukkhānaṃ".
The tenth: the Apadāna of Saṅghupaṭṭhāka the Elder (180)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.