[97] For the Blessed One Siddhattha
I made a stūpa of fragrance,
covered over with jasmine flowers,
one befitting a Buddha.
[Venerating] the Buddha, supreme leader of the world,
resembling an ornamental pillar of gold,
blazing like a blue lotus,
like a fire fully ablaze,
most excellent like a lordly tiger,
like a nobly bred maned lion,
seated as the foremost of ascetics,
attended by the Saṅgha of bhikkhus —
having paid homage at the Teacher's feet,
I departed facing north.
It was ninety-four aeons from now
that I gave the perfume and garlands.
By the fruit of that deed done for the Buddha,
especially, I know of no bad destination:
this is the fruit of honoring the Buddha (buddhapūjā).
In the aeon one less than forty [the thirty-ninth aeon]
there were sixteen kings,
wheel-turning monarchs (cakkavatti),
all bearing the same name, Devagandha.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā),
and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized;
the Buddha's teaching has been done.
Thus indeed the Venerable Elder Gandhamāliya spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Gandhamāliya is concluded.
The Sixth: The Apadāna of the Elder Tipupphiya (96)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.