[343] The Victor (jina) named Padumuttara, who had gone to the far shore of all dhammas,
making clear existence in all its forms, brings a great multitude of people across.
At that time I was a king of geese (haṃsa), the foremost of birds;
plunging into a natural lake, I sported the sport of geese.
Padumuttara, the Knower of the World (lokavidū), the receiver of oblations —
at that very moment the Victor came above that natural lake.
When I saw the God of Gods (devadeva), the Self-Existent One (sayambhū), the Leader of the World,
I severed at its stalk a delightful, seven-petalled lotus (paduma);
holding it up with my beak, with a serenely confident mind,
I flung it up into the sky and worshipped the supreme Buddha.
Padumuttara, the Knower of the World, the receiver of oblations,
the Teacher, standing in mid-air, expressed his appreciation (anumodanā):
"By this single lotus, and by your intention and aspirations,
for a hundred thousand aeons (kappa) you shall not go to the downfall (vinipāta)."
Having said this, the Fully Awakened One, he whose name is the supreme water-born flower [Padumuttara],
extolled my deed and went where he wished.
It was a hundred thousand aeons ago that I did that deed;
I know of no bad destination (duggati) since: this is the fruit of worship of the Buddha (buddhapūjā).
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
the six superknowledges (abhiññā) — these have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
It was thus, indeed, that the Venerable Ekapadumiya, the Elder, spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Ekapadumiya is concluded.
The second: the Apadāna of the Elder Tīṇuppalamāliya (342)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.