[196] At that time there was a royal garden in the delightful city of Tipurā; there I was the keeper of the garden, a servant of the king.
There was a Self-Awakened One (sayambhū) named Paduma, who was lame (sappato); the shade did not forsake that sage as he sat upon a white lotus.
Seeing an asoka in bloom, laden with clusters, lovely to behold, I offered it up to the Buddha, him whose name is that of the supreme of flowers born of the water.
In the ninety-fourth aeon (kappa) from now, because I offered up that flower, I have known no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of worship of the Buddha.
In the seventieth aeon from now there were sixteen universal monarchs (cakkavattī) named Araṇañjaha, endowed with the seven treasures, of great power.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha), and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
It was thus, indeed, that the Venerable Elder Asokapūjaka spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Asokapūjaka is concluded.
The Apadāna of the Elder Aṅkolaka, the Fifth (195)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.