[65] On the bank of the river Sindhu
I was then a cakkavāka bird;
my food was pure waterweed (sevāla),
and I was well restrained toward living beings.
I saw the stainless Buddha
moving through the sky, the pathway of the wind;
lifting up a sāla flower with my beak,
I offered it to Vipassī.
¹ [Variant note in the Siam edition: the Burmese and European editions read "Āvopupphiyo."]
One in whom faith (saddhā) in the Tathāgata
is unshaken and well established —
through that confidence of mind (citta-ppasāda)
he does not go to a bad destination (duggati).
Truly, welcome indeed was my coming
into the presence of the supreme Buddha;
by me, while yet a bird,
a good seed was planted.
In the ninety-first aeon (kappa) from the present,
that I offered up that flower,
I know of no bad destination:
this is the fruit of the worship of the Buddha (buddhapūjā).
These eight of a single name,
called Sucārudassana,
were, in the seventeenth aeon,
universal monarchs (cakkavatti) of great might.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā),
and these eight liberations (vimokkha),
the six superknowledges (abhiññā) have been realized;
the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed the Venerable Paccāgamaniya the Elder spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Paccāgamaniya is concluded.
The Apadāna of the Elder Parappasādaka, the fourth (64)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.