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The Blessed One Anomadassī, seated in the midst of the mountains,
free from acquisitions (nirūpadhi), pervaded the boundless world with loving-kindness.
At that time I was a monkey on Himavant, the supreme mountain;
seeing him, the peerless, the surpassing one,¹ I made my mind confident in the Buddha.
Not far from Himavant there were then mango trees bearing fruit;
taking a ripe mango from there, I gave it together with honey.
The Buddha Anomadassī, the Great Sage (mahāmuni), predicted this of me:
"Through this gift of honey and through the mango drink — through both —
for fifty-seven aeons (kappa) he will delight in the world of the devas (devaloka);
in the remaining aeons he will wander on in mixed [states].
Having exhausted the evil kamma, when his development has fully ripened,²
having come from the downfall (vinipāta) and the like, he will burn up the defilements (kilesa)."
By the Great Seer (mahesi) I have been tamed with the supreme taming;
I have attained the unshakable state, having abandoned victory and defeat.
In the seventy-seven hundredth aeon there were fourteen kings
named Ambaṭṭhajaya,³ wheel-turning monarchs (cakkavatti) of great might.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized: the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
¹ M: "anomadassiṃ taṃ"; Yu: "anomam amitaṃ".
² So the text ("vuddhiyā", development); M and Yu read "buddhiyā" (understanding).
³ M and Yu: "ambaṭṭhajasanāmakā".
Thus indeed the Venerable Ambadāyaka the Elder spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of Ambadāyaka the Elder is concluded.
The Ninth: the Apadāna of Sumana the Elder (69)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.