[60] At the supreme tree, the Bodhi of the Buddha Padumuttara,
joyful, with a joyful mind, I raised a banner aloft.
Gathering up the fallen leaves, I cast them away outside,
[venerating him who is] pure within, pure without, well liberated, free from taints (āsava):
as if face to face with the Fully Enlightened One, I venerated the supreme Bodhi.
Padumuttara, the Knower of the World, the receiver of oblations,
the Teacher, standing amid the Saṅgha of bhikkhus, spoke these verses:
"By this gift of a banner and by this attendance (upaṭṭhāna) — by both —
for a hundred thousand aeons (kappa) he will not go to a bad destination (duggati);
among the devas he will enjoy divine splendor in no small measure.
And many hundreds of times he will be a king in the realm;
Uggata by name, he will become a universal monarch (cakkavatti).
Having enjoyed that prosperity, urged on by the bright root [of merit],
he will delight in the dispensation (sāsana) of the Blessed One Gotama."
I am intent upon striving (padhāna), calmed, free from acquisitions (nirūpadhi);
I bear my final body in the dispensation of the Fully Self-Enlightened One.
In the fifty-one-thousandth aeon there were [rulers] named Uggata,
and in the fifty-thousandth, khattiyas (warrior-nobles) named Khema.
The four analytical insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized: the Buddha's dispensation has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed the Venerable Elder Dhajadāyaka spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Dhajadāyaka is concluded.
The Ninth: the Apadāna of the Elder Paduma (59)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.