[188] In the city of Rammavatī I was a player of the muraja drum;
devoted to constant attendance, I went to the supreme Bodhi tree.
Having attended upon it evening and morning, urged on by that bright root of merit (sukkamūla),
for eighteen hundred aeons (kappa) I was not reborn in a bad destination (duggati).
In the fifteen-hundredth aeon from now I was a lord of the people,
a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) of great might, Damatha 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 dispensation (sāsana) has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Elder Bodhi-upaṭṭhāyaka speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Bodhi-upaṭṭhāyaka is concluded.
The Apadāna of the Elder Ekacintika, the Seventh (187)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.