[220] Taking the coarse cloth (kusāṭaka), I would drape it upon my preceptor,
and I kept training in the sacred hymns (manta) so as to attain the lancing of boils (gaṇḍabheda).
I saw the Buddha, free from dust, the recipient of oblations,
the bull, the most excellent, the foremost — Tissa the Buddha, an elephant supreme.
[I beheld] the supreme among men stepping upon the coarse cloth I had spread out —
the one risen high, the great hero, the eldest of the world, the bull among men.
Having seen him, the lamp of the world, stainless, resembling the moon,
I paid homage at the Teacher's feet with a mind serene with confidence.
It was in the ninety-fourth aeon from the present that I gave that coarse cloth;
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of the coarse cloth.
In the thirty-seventh aeon from the present I was one lord of the people,
Sunanda by name, a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) of great might.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha) as well,
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been carried out.
Thus indeed the Venerable Akkantasaññaka the Elder spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of Akkantasaññaka the Elder is concluded.
The Ninth: the Apadāna of Sappidāyaka the Elder (219)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.