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When the Protector of the World (lokanātha), Vipassī, the foremost of persons (aggapuggala), had attained final Nibbāna,
I took a lotus (paduma) in full bloom and placed it upon the funeral pyre (citaka).
[Apparatus of the Siam Raṭṭha edition: (1) Burmese ed.: "āvelatthaṃ ahaṃsu me"; European ed.: "āvelatthaṃ akāsi me". (2) Burmese ed.: "samādhiṃ su"; European ed.: "saṃsāviṃ su". (3) Burmese and European eds.: "sissā".]
No sooner had it been placed upon the pyre than it rose aloft into the air, into the sky;
making a canopy in the air, I held it over the pyre.
In the ninety-first aeon (kappa) from now I offered up that flower;
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of worship of the Buddha (buddhapūjā).
Forty-seven aeons from now there was a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti) named Padumissara,
victorious, lord of the four quarters, of great might.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Elder Padumacchadaniya speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Padumacchadaniya is concluded.
Seventh: the Apadāna of the Elder Sayanadāyaka (47)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.