[54] Having ascended a lofty rock, the Supreme Person sat down;
not far from the mountain [dwelt I], a brahmin who had mastered the mantras.
Raising my joined palms (añjali) toward the Great Hero seated there,
the God of gods, the Bull of Men, I extolled the Leader of the World:
"This Buddha, the Great Hero, proclaimer of the excellent Dhamma,
blazes like a mass of fire, at the head of the Saṅgha of bhikkhus.
Imperturbable as the great ocean, hard to cross as the sea,
fearless as the king of beasts, the One with Vision teaches the Dhamma."
Knowing my intention, [the Teacher] named Padumuttara,¹
the Teacher, standing amid the Saṅgha of bhikkhus, spoke these verses:
"He by whom this añjali was offered and the supreme Buddha extolled
shall exercise kingship among the devas for thirty thousand eons (kappa).
In a hundred thousand eons, the one named Aṅgīrasa,
a Fully Enlightened One with the veil rolled back, shall arise at that very time.
An heir in his teachings, a true-born son fashioned of the Dhamma,
he shall be an arahant, Sataraṃsī by name."
At seven years from birth I went forth into homelessness;
under the name Sataraṃsi, radiance streams forth from me.
In a pavilion or at the foot of a tree, a meditator delighting in jhāna,
I bear my final body in the dispensation of the Fully Self-Enlightened One.
In the sixty-thousandth eon there were four named Roma,²
universal monarchs endowed with the seven treasures, of great might.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha) too,
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's dispensation has been fulfilled.
¹ Ma. (Burmese) and Yu. (European) editions read "Padumuttara-nāyako" ("Padumuttara the Leader"). ² Ma. reads "Rāma-nāmakā" ("named Rāma").
Thus indeed did the Venerable Sataraṃsiya Thera speak these verses.
The Apadāna of Sataraṃsiya Thera is concluded.
Third: The Apadāna of Sayanadāyaka Thera (53)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.