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When Siddhattha, the Compassionate One, the Leader of the World, had attained final Nibbāna,
and the Word (pāvacana) had spread far and wide, honored by devas and humans,
I was then a caṇḍāla (outcaste), a maker of couches and stools (āsandi-pīṭha);
by that work I made my living, and by it I supported my children.
Having made a well-crafted couch (āsandi) with my own hands, with confident heart,
I approached in person and gave it to the Saṅgha of bhikkhus.
[¹ Ma., Yu.: *catunnavutito kappe*.]
Through that deed well done, and through my volition (cetanā) and aspirations,
on abandoning the human body I went to Tāvatiṃsa.
Gone to the deva-world, I rejoice in the host of the Thirty (Tidasa);
beds of great price arise for me just as I wish.
Fifty times, as lord of devas, I exercised divine rulership;
and eighty times I was a king, a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti).
Extensive regional kingship was mine, incalculable by reckoning;
happy am I and possessed of fame — this is the fruit of the gift of a bed.
If, passing away from the deva-world, I come to the human state,
fine beds of great worth come into being for me of their own accord.
This, my last, my final existence, is now proceeding;
even today, at the time for lying down, a bed presents itself to me.
Since in the ninety-fourth aeon¹ from now I gave that gift,
I know of no bad destination — this is the fruit of the gift of a bed.
My defilements (kilesa) have been burned up; all existences have been extirpated;
like an elephant that has burst its bonds, I dwell without taints (āsava).
Welcome indeed was my coming into the presence of my Buddha;
the three true knowledges (vijjā) have been attained; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
Thus indeed the Venerable Mañcadāyaka the Elder spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of Mañcadāyaka the Elder is concluded.
Summary (Uddāna)
Bhaddāli and Ekachatta, Tiṇasūla and Maṃsada,
Nāgapallavaka, Dīpa, Ucchaṅgi, Yāgudāyaka,
Patthodani, and Mañcadada. The verses, counted separately,
are two hundred verses, and one verse over and above.
The Bhaddāli Chapter, the Forty-Second.
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The Forty-Third: the Sakiṃsammajjaka Chapter
First: the Apadāna of Sakiṃsammajjaka the Elder (421)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.