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At that time I was a monkey on the bank of the river Candabhāgā;
I saw the Buddha, the stainless one, seated in a cleft of the mountains.
Illumining all the quarters like a royal sāla tree in full bloom,
endowed with the marks and minor characteristics (lakkhaṇa-byañjana) — seeing him, I was delighted.
Exultant in mind (citta), joyful, my heart gladdened by rapture (pīti),
I raised up three uppala flowers upon his head.
Having offered the flowers to Vipassī, the great seer,
and having shown reverence, I departed facing north.
As I went along, moving backwards, with a serene heart,
I fell down between the crags and reached the end of my life.
#1 Yu.: gamitvāna. 2 Ma., Yu.: patitvāna.
By that deed well done, and through my intentions and resolves,
having abandoned the human body, I went to Tāvatiṃsa.
Three hundred times I exercised rulership over the devas,
and five hundred times I was a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti).
In the ninety-first aeon (kappa) from this one, because of the flower I offered in veneration,
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of veneration of the Buddha (buddhapūjā).
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been done.
Thus indeed the Venerable Tīṇuppalamāliya the Elder spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Tīṇuppalamāliya is concluded.
The Apadāna of the Elder Dhajadāyaka, the third (343)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.