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I was a monkey, strong and swift,
ranging the mountain fastnesses;
seeing a tinduka tree in fruit,
I recollected the supreme Buddha.
Setting forth, for several days
I searched for the Leader of the World,
confident in mind and glad at heart —
Siddhattha, gone to the end of the three existences.
Discerning my intention,
the Teacher, unsurpassed in the world,
came into my presence
together with thousands whose taints (āsava) were destroyed.
Having given rise to gladness,
I approached with the fruit in hand;
the Blessed One accepted it —
the All-Knowing One, the best of speakers.
In the ninety-fourth aeon (kappa) from the present,
the fruit that I gave then —
I know of no bad destination:
this is the fruit of the gift of fruit.
In the fifty-seventh aeon¹ [I was]
one bearing the name Upananda,
a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) of great might,
endowed with the seven treasures.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā),
and these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized;
the Buddha's teaching has been carried out.
It was thus, indeed, that the Venerable Elder Tindukadāyaka spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Tindukadāyaka is concluded.
The eighth: the Apadāna of the Elder Girinelamuṭṭhipūjaka* (198)
¹ [Siam ed. footnote, printed in the source at the page break after the fourth stanza:] "Ma. sattatiṃse" — the Burmese edition reads "in the thirty-seventh [aeon]."
* A footnote marker (๑) stands here in the source; the corresponding note lies outside this excerpt.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.