[184] The Fully Awakened One named Sobhita,⁴ the Self-Arisen One (sayambhū), extolled by the good—
having entered upon concentration (samādhi), he sat down between the mountains.
[Siam edition footnotes: #1 Ma. (Burmese ed.), Yu. (European ed.): uggataṃ. #2 Ma.: saṃvitathatasamotthataṃ; Yu.: haṃ vitthatasamotthaṭaṃ. #3 Ma.: tayo āsuṃ supupphitā. #4 Ma., Yu.: Siddhattho.]
While searching in a natural lake for the supreme water-born flower,
I saw bandhujīvaka flowers close at hand.
Raising them with both hands, I approached the Great Sage;
with a mind (citta) full of confidence, glad at heart, I offered them to Sobhita.¹
Since in the ninety-fourth aeon (kappa) from the present I offered that flower,
I do not know of any bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of worship of the Buddha (buddhapūjā).
In the fourteenth aeon from the present I was one lord of the people,
a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) of great might, Samuddakappa by name.
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 fulfilled.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Bandhujīvaka the Elder speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Bandhujīvaka is concluded.
The Apadāna of the Elder Kotumbariya, the Third (183)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.