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The Fully Enlightened One (sambuddha), golden-hued, walking along the market street,
resembling a precious column of gold, bearing the thirty-two excellent marks —
at that time I was the son of a wealthy merchant (seṭṭhi), delicately reared, established in happiness;¹
having placed a pāṭalī flower in the fold of my garment, I offered it up to him.
#1 The Burmese edition (ม.) reads "sukhedhito" ("raised in happiness").
Joyful, with a joyful mind, I worshipped him with flowers;
I paid homage to Tissa, the knower of the world (lokavidū), the protector, the god among men (naradeva).
In the ninety-second aeon (kappa) from the present, that deed which I did then —
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of the offering of flowers.
In the sixty-third aeon from the present there was one named Abhisammata,
a universal monarch (cakkavatti) endowed with the seven treasures (ratana), possessed of great might.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha) as well,
the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been done.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Elder Pāṭalipupphiya speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Pāṭalipupphiya is concluded.
The Ninth: The Apadāna of the Elder Ṭhitañjaliya (79)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.