While the pyre (citaka) was being built
and fragrances of many kinds had been gathered together,¹
with a confident mind, glad at heart,
I offered in worship a handful of fragrance (gandhamuṭṭhi).
¹ Siam Raṭṭha apparatus: "ม. samāhate" — the Burmese recension reads *samāhate* ("heaped together") for *samāgate* ("gathered together").
It was a hundred thousand aeons ago
that I honored that pyre:
I know of no bad destination (duggati) —
this is the fruit of the worship of a pyre (citapūjā).
Welcome indeed was my coming
into the presence of my Buddha:
the three true knowledges (vijjā) have been attained;
the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been done.
My defilements (kilesa) have been burned up;
all existences (bhava) have been rooted out;
like an elephant that has severed its bonds,
I dwell without taints (āsava).
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā),
these eight liberations (vimokkha) too,
and the six superknowledges (abhiññā) have been realized;
the Buddha's teaching has been done.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Gandhamuṭṭhiya the Elder speak these verses.
The Apadāna of Gandhamuṭṭhiya the Elder is concluded.
The seventh: the Apadāna of Citakapūjaka the Elder (377).
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.