[200] The Blessed One named Sumedha, eldest of the world, bull among men —
the Victor (jina) undertook striving (padhāna) out of compassion for those of later times.
To that Buddha — the lord of the two-footed (dipadinda), the steadfast one (tādī) —
as he was walking [in meditation], I offered a handful of giriṇela flowers.
By that confidence of mind (cittappasāda), urged on by that bright root [of merit],
for thirty thousand aeons (kappa) I was not reborn in a bad destination (duggati).
In the twenty-three hundredth aeon [from this one] I was a warrior-noble (khattiya) named Sunela,
endowed with the seven treasures, one of great might.
# ¹ Ma. (Burmese) and Yu. (European) editions: Muṭṭhipūjakattherāpadānaṃ.
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 Giriṇelamuṭṭhipūjaka spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Giriṇelamuṭṭhipūjaka is concluded.
Ninth: the Apadāna of the Elder Tikaṇḍipupphiya¹ (199)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.