[244] Having made my bow unable to shoot, I plunged into the midst of the forest;
I saw a kesara tree sprung up beside the mountain path, drooping down [with its blossoms].
Raising it aloft with both hands and making the añjali [joined palms] upon my head,
I offered it to the Buddha Tissa, the Kinsman of the World (lokabandhu).
In the ninety-second aeon (kappa) from now, since I offered that flower,
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of worship of the Buddha (buddhapūjā).
In the seventy-seventh aeon from now there was [a king] named Samokkharaṇa,
a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) endowed with the seven treasures, 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 done.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Nāgakesariya Thera speak these verses.
The Apadāna of Nāgakesariya Thera is concluded.
The Third: The Apadāna of Naḷinakesariya Thera (243)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.