[401] Plunging down into the great ocean, my mansion was well fashioned;
well fashioned was its lotus pond, resounding with cakkavāka birds,
covered over with mandālaka flowers and with lotuses and blue water-lilies;
and a river flowed there, with lovely fords, delightful.
Teeming with fish and turtles, overspread with beasts of many kinds,
it resounded with peacocks and herons, and with sweet-voiced cuckoos and the rest.
Pigeons and ravihaṃsa geese, cakkavākas that course the river,
dindibha lapwings and mynas were there, cappaka birds and jīvajīvaka pheasants,
swans and clamouring herons, owls and jackals in abundance;
it was endowed with the seven jewels, its sands of gems and pearls.
The trees, all made of gold, suffused with manifold fragrance,
lit up the mansion day and night, at all times.
Sixty thousand instruments of music sounded at evening and at morning;
sixteen thousand women surrounded me at all times.
Going forth from my mansion, with a confident mind (citta), glad at heart,
I venerated Sumedha, the Leader of the World, that one of great fame.
Having saluted the Fully Awakened One, I invited him together with his disciples;
that wise one consented, Sumedha, the Leader of the World.
Having given me a talk on the Dhamma, the Great Sage dismissed me;
having saluted the Fully Awakened One, I returned to my mansion.
I addressed my retinue: "All of you, assemble!
In the forenoon the Buddha will come to this mansion."
"It is a gain for us, well gained indeed, that we dwell in your presence!
We too shall pay worship (pūjā) to the supreme Buddha, the Teacher."
Having set out food and drink, I announced that it was time;
the Leader of the World drew near with a hundred thousand masters.
With song and with instruments I went out to meet him;
the Supreme among Men sat down upon a seat made all of gold.
There was then a canopy overhead, made all of gold,
and fans wafted to and fro amid the Saṅgha of bhikkhus.
With abundant food and drink I satisfied the Saṅgha of bhikkhus;
to the Saṅgha of bhikkhus I gave a pair of cloths for each one.
He whom they call "Sumedha," the recipient of the world's oblations,
seated amid the Saṅgha of bhikkhus, spoke these verses:
"He who with food and drink has satisfied me wholly therewith —
him I shall proclaim; listen to me as I speak.
For eighteen hundred aeons (kappa) he will delight in the deva world (devaloka),
and a thousand times he will be a king, a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti).
Into whatever womb he is reborn, whether the state of a deva or a human,
always he will bear above him a covering made all of gold.
Thirty thousand aeons hence, one sprung from the Okkāka clan,
Gotama by name, will be the Teacher in the world.
An heir in his teachings, a true-born son formed by the Dhamma,
having fully understood all the taints (āsava), he will attain Nibbāna, free from taints.
Seated amid the Saṅgha of bhikkhus, he will roar the lion's roar;
over his pyre they will hold a parasol; beneath the parasol he will be cremated."
The goal of the ascetic life has been attained by me; the defilements (kilesa) have been burned away by me;
in a pavilion or at the root of a tree, no fever is found in me.
Thirty thousand aeons ago I gave that gift, and since then
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of the gift of all things.
My defilements have been burned away; all existences have been extirpated;
like an elephant that has cut its bonds, I dwell free of taints.
Welcome indeed was my coming into the presence of my Buddha!
The three true knowledges (vijjā) have been attained; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (abhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Elder Sabbadāyaka speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Sabbadāyaka is concluded.
The Tenth: the Apadāna of the Elder Ajita (400)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.