[334] As the Fully Awakened One (sambuddha), golden in color,
was going along the pathway of the winds,
blazing like a fire fed with ghee,
like a flaming sacrificial fire,
I took up water in my hand
and tossed it up into the sky;
the great hero accepted it —
the Buddha, the compassionate seer.
Standing in the sky, the Teacher
whose name was Padumuttara,
knowing my intention,
spoke this verse:
"By this gift of water
and by the arousing of rapture (pīti),
for a hundred thousand eons (kappa)
you shall not be reborn in a bad destination (duggati)."
By that deed (kamma), O lord of the two-footed,
eldest of the world, bull among men,
having abandoned victory and defeat,
I have attained the unshakable state.
Sixty-five hundred eons [ago]
there were three wheel-turning monarchs (cakkavatti)
named Sahassarāja,
lords of the people [ruling] to the four ends [of the earth].
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā),
and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized;
the Buddha's teaching has been done.
Thus indeed the Venerable Elder Udakapūjaka spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Udakapūjaka is concluded.
Third: The Apadāna of the Elder Punnāgapupphiya (333)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.