[198] In the city of Dvāravatī
I had a flower garden,
and right there was a well
giving growth to the trees.
Upheld by his own strength,
Siddhattha, the unvanquished,
out of compassion for me
went along the pathway of the wind.
I saw nothing else
fit as an offering to the Great Seer (mahesi);
seeing a tender shoot of the asoka tree,
I flung it up into the sky.
Those tender shoots went along
behind the Buddha as he traveled;
seeing them, I was deeply stirred:
"Oh, the magnificence of the Buddha!"
In the ninety-fourth aeon from now
I offered up that tender shoot;
I know of no bad destination (duggati) —
this is the fruit of the offering to the Buddha (buddhapūjā).
In the twenty-seventh aeon from now
there was one named Ekissara,
endowed with the seven treasures,
a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) of great power.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā),
and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized;
the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed the Venerable Elder Kisalayapūjaka spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Kisalayapūjaka is concluded.
The seventh: the Apadāna of the Elder Tindukadāyaka (197).
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.