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"At that time I was a brahmin, Ajita by name;
desiring to offer an oblation (āhuti), I gathered together flowers of many kinds.
Having seen the blazing pyre of Sikhī, the Kinsman of the World,
I brought those flowers together and strewed them upon the pyre.
In the thirty-first aeon from now, since I made offering with that flower,
I know of no bad destination — this is the fruit of worshipping the Buddha (buddhapūjā).
In the twenty-seventh aeon from now there were seven lords of men
named Supajjalita, wheel-turning monarchs (cakkavattī) of great might.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha) too,
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized: the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."
Thus indeed the Venerable Elder Citakapūjaka spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Citakapūjaka is concluded.
[Variant readings: ¹ Yu. reads katvā ("having made") for disvā ("having seen"). ² Po. reads ekanavute ("in the ninety-first [aeon]").]
The second: the Apadāna of the Elder Pupphadhāraka (292)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.