[379] When the Blessed One named Jalajuttama [= Padumuttara] had attained final Nibbāna (parinibbuta),
and when [his body] had been placed upon the pyre (citaka), I offered a sāla flower in worship.
A hundred thousand aeons (kappa) from the present — the flower that I then offered¹ —
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of the worship of the pyre (citapūjā).
Welcome indeed was my coming into the presence of my Buddha²;
the three true knowledges (vijjā) have been attained; the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been done.
My defilements (kilesa) have been burned away; all existences (bhava) have been uprooted;
like an elephant that has sundered its bonds, I dwell free from taints (anāsava).
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
It was thus, indeed, that the Venerable Citakapūjaka Thera spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of Citakapūjaka Thera is concluded.
The eighth: the Apadāna of Sumanatālavaṇṭiya Thera (378)
[Apparatus of the Siam Raṭṭha edition: ¹ "abhipūjayiṃ" would be the more fitting reading. ² The European edition reads "buddhaseṭṭhassa" ("of the supreme Buddha") … .]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.