[375] Then I was a monkey on the bank of the river Candabhāgā.
I saw the stainless Buddha seated in the midst of the mountains,
illuminating all the directions like a royal sāla tree in full bloom,
endowed with the marks and the minor characteristics; seeing him, I was elated.
With uplifted mind (citta), joyful, my heart gladdened by rapture (pīti),
I placed three uppala (blue lotus) flowers upon his head.
Having worshipped with those flowers Phussa,¹ the Great Seer (mahesi),
filled with reverence I departed, facing north.
As I went along bowed down, with a serenely confident mind,
I fell between the crags and reached the end of my life.
Through that deed well done, and through volition (cetanā) and resolve,
having abandoned my former birth (jāti), I went to Tāvatiṃsa.
Three hundred times I exercised kingship over the devas,
and five hundred times I was a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti).
It was ninety-two aeons from now that I offered that flower in worship:
I know of no bad destination (duggati) — 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) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been fulfilled.
¹ Burmese edition: phussassāhaṃ; European edition: phussassātha.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Elder Tīṇuppalamāliya speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Tīṇuppalamāliya is concluded.
The fourth: the Apadāna of the Elder Pattipupphiya (374)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.