[217] [I beheld him] rising like the hundred-rayed sun,
like the radiant one of golden rays,¹
like a lordly tiger, supreme,
nobly born, amid the mountains.
That majestic power of the Buddha
blazes amid the mountains;
having made my mind serenely confident in that radiance,
I rejoiced in heaven (sagga) for an aeon.
In the remaining aeons
I performed wholesome deeds,²
through that confidence of mind (cittappasāda)
and through the recollection of the Buddha (buddhānussati).
Thirty thousand aeons from the present
was the perception I gained then;
I have known no bad destination (duggati):
this is the fruit of the perception of the Buddha (buddhasaññā).
In the fifty-seventh aeon
I was one lord of the people,
Sujāta by name,
a universal monarch (cakkavatti) of great power.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā),
and these eight liberations (vimokkha),
the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized;
the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Elder Raṃsisaññaka speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Raṃsisaññaka is concluded.
# ¹ European edition: vītaraṃsīva. ² Burmese edition: caritaṃ; European edition: tīritaṃ.
The Apadāna of the Elder Sandhita, the Sixth (216)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.