[342] In the city of Haṃsavatī I was then a garland-maker (mālika);
plunging into a lotus pond, I was gathering sattapatta lotuses.
The Victor (jina) named Padumuttara, gone to the far shore of all dhammas,
together with a hundred thousand steadfast ones of peaceful mind (citta) —
pure, their taints (āsava) destroyed, possessed of the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā), meditators —
seeking my welfare, the Supreme among Men came.
When I saw him — the God of Gods, the Self-Become One (Sayambhū), the Leader of the World —
I cut a sattapatta lotus at the stalk and tossed it up into the sky then:
"If you are the Buddha, O Wise One, Eldest of the World, Bull among Men,
let the sattapatta lotus go of its own accord and be borne upon your head."
The Great Hero, Eldest of the World, Bull among Men, made the resolve;
by the Buddha's power they remained borne upon his head.
By that deed well done and by my volitional aspirations (cetanā-paṇidhi),
on abandoning the human body I went to Tāvatiṃsa.
There my well-made mansion is called "Sattapatta" —
rising sixty yojanas in height, thirty yojanas in breadth.
A thousand times, as lord of the devas, I exercised kingship over the devas,
and seventy-five times I was a universal monarch (cakkavatti);
extensive regional kingship was mine, incalculable by reckoning —
I experience my own deeds, well done by myself in the past.
Through that one single lotus, having enjoyed such attainments (sampadā),
I have realized the Dhamma of the Blessed One Gotama.
My defilements (kilesa) have been burned away; all existences have been extirpated;
like an elephant that has burst its bonds, I dwell without taints.
It was a hundred thousand aeons (kappa) from now that I offered that flower in worship:
I know of no bad destination — this is the fruit of a single lotus.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed the Venerable Ukkhittapadumiya the Elder spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Ukkhittapadumiya is concluded.
Summary (uddāna):
Gandhodaka and Pūjanī, Punnāga, Ekadussikā,
Phussita and Pabhaṅkara, Kuṭida, Uttarīyaka,
Savana, Ekapadumī — the verses, all counted together,
are one hundred verses and forty-four.
The Gandhodaka Chapter, the Thirty-fourth.
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The Ekapaduma Chapter, the Thirty-fifth
First: the Apadāna of the Elder Ekapadumiya (341)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.