[229] Going out to the park grounds, I saw the Leader of the World;
I took up a golden head-wreath (vaṭaṃsaka), finely fashioned.
Going swiftly, I climbed up; and seated on the elephant's back,
I offered it up to the Buddha Sikhī, the Kinsman of the World.
In the thirty-first aeon from now, the flower that I offered then —
I know of no bad destination (duggati); this is the fruit of worshipping the Buddha (buddhapūjā).
In the twenty-seventh aeon from now, I was one lord of the people,
Mahāpatāpa by name, a universal monarch (cakkavatti) of great power.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Elder Sovaṇṇavaṭaṃsakiya speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Sovaṇṇavaṭaṃsakiya is concluded.
The Eighth: The Apadāna of the Elder Miñjavaṭaṃsakiya (228)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.