[56] There was a festival of the great Bodhi tree of the Buddha Padumuttara;
taking an ornate pot, I gave scented water.
And at the time of the bathing of the Bodhi tree a great cloud poured down rain,
and there was a great roar as the thunderbolt burst.
By the force of that very thunderbolt I died on that spot;
standing in the heavenly world (devaloka), I spoke these verses:
"Oh, the Buddha! Oh, the Dhamma! Oh, the excellence of our Teacher!
My corpse has fallen down, and I delight in the heavenly world.
"Lofty is my mansion, risen up seven stories high;
a hundred thousand maidens surround me always.
"No afflictions are found in me; no sorrow is found in me;
I see no burning distress: this is the fruit of meritorious action (puññakamma)."
In the twenty-eight hundredth aeon (kappa) there was a king named Saṃvasita,
a universal monarch (cakkavatti) of great might, endowed with the seven treasures.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
Thus indeed the Venerable Elder Gandhodakadāyaka¹ spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Gandhodakadāyaka is concluded.
¹ The Po., Ma., and Yu. editions read: Gandhodakiya.
The Fifth: the Apadāna of the Elder Opavuyha (55)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.