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A palm-leaf fan was given by me to Tissa, possessor of the divine eye (dibbacakkhu),
for the cooling of the summer heat, for the allaying of the burning fever.
I quench utterly the fire of lust (rāgaggi) and, beyond that, the fire of hatred (dosaggi);
and I quench the fire of delusion (mohaggi): this is the fruit of the palm-leaf fan.
My defilements (kilesa) have been burned away; all existences (bhava) have been utterly rooted out;
I bear my final body in the dispensation of the Fully Self-Enlightened One (sammāsambuddha).
In the ninety-second aeon (kappa) from now, whatever deed I did then,
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of the palm-leaf fan.
In the sixty-third aeon from now there was one named Mahārāma,
endowed with the seven treasures, a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) of great might.
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 did the Venerable Elder Tālavaṇṭadāyaka speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Tālavaṇṭadāyaka is concluded.
The eighth: the Apadāna of the Elder Akkantasaññaka (218)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.