Nāgasamālavagga

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Therāpadāna (1) · Vol. 32 · Section 81

[81] Formerly I was a deer-hunter[1] in the forest, in the woodland; there I saw the Fully Enlightened One (Sambuddha), bearing the thirty-two excellent marks. There, having made the reverential salutation with joined palms (añjali), I departed facing east; and as I sat not far away upon a spread of leaves that had been laid ready, then at that moment a thunderbolt fell upon my head; and I, at the time of death, made the añjali once again. It was in the ninety-second aeon (kappa) from the present that I made that añjali; I know of no bad destination (duggati) — this is the fruit of the añjali. In the fifty-fourth aeon there was one named Migaketu, a universal monarch (cakkavatti) endowed with the seven treasures, of great might. The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and these eight liberations (vimokkha) too, and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled. Thus indeed did the Venerable Elder (thera) Ṭhitañjaliya speak these verses. The Apadāna of the Elder Ṭhitañjaliya is concluded. The Tenth: the Apadāna of the Elder Tīṇipadumiya (80) #1 Ma., Yu. read: migaluddo.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.