[185] Shining like a kaṇikāra flower, seated between the mountains, immeasurable as the ocean, upraised like the earth,
attended by the host of devas, like a chief thoroughbred bull — joyful, with a joyful mind, I approached him, the supreme among men.
Taking up seven flowers together with a kotumbara cloth, I offered them to the Buddha Sikhī, the Kinsman of the World.
Since I offered that flower in the thirty-first aeon (kappa) from now, I know of no bad destination: this is the fruit of worshipping the Buddha.
In the twentieth aeon from now I was one universal monarch (cakkavatti) of great majesty and great might, Mahānela by name.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha) as well, and the six superknowledges (abhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
It was thus, indeed, that the Venerable Elder Kotumbariya spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Kotumbariya is concluded.
The fourth: the Apadāna of the Elder Pañcahatthiya (184)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.