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At that time the Fully Enlightened One named Vipassī, the Eldest of the world, the Bull among men, was dwelling in a monastery of the Saṅgha (saṅghārāma) together with those whose taints (āsava) were destroyed.
Coming out from the gateway of the monastery, Vipassī, the Leader of the World, [went forth] together with eight hundred thousand whose taints were destroyed.
Clad in an antelope hide and wearing a garment of bark-fibre, taking up safflower water (kusumbhodaka), I approached the Fully Enlightened One.
Having made my own mind (citta) serenely confident, thrilled with joy, with hands joined in reverence, taking up safflower water, I sprinkled it over the Buddha.
Through that deed (kamma), the Fully Enlightened One who bore the name of the supreme flower born of the waters [i.e., Padumuttara], having extolled my deed, departed whither he wished.
Five thousand were the drops with which I honoured the Victor (jina): through two thousand five hundred of them I exercised kingship among the devas;
through two thousand five hundred I became a universal monarch (cakkavatti); through the deed that remained I attained arahantship.
When I was a king of the devas, and when a lord of human beings, mine was that very same designation: I was named Phussita, "Besprinkled."
Whether I abode as a deva, or again as a human being, all around me, to the distance of a fathom, drops of rain would fall.
My existences (bhava) have been rooted out, my defilements (kilesa) have been burnt away; all taints in me are utterly exhausted: this is the fruit of the drops of water.
Like that of sandalwood is my rain—even so does its fragrance waft abroad; and the fragrance of my body wafts for half a kosa.
When they smell the scent—the heavenly fragrance streaming forth from one endowed with meritorious kamma—they know: "Phussita has come here."
Branches, leaves, and sticks of wood, and grasses too, one and all, discerning my intention, become fragrant in an instant.
A hundred thousand aeons (kappa) ago from now I made offering of sandalwood; I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of the gift of drops.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha), and the six superknowledges (abhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been fulfilled.
It was thus, indeed, that the Venerable Elder Phussitakammiya uttered these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Phussitakammiya is concluded.
The sixth: the Apadāna of the Elder Pabhaṅkara (336)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.