[156] Then I was a kinnarī on the bank of the river Candabhāgā;
I saw the stainless Buddha, the Self-Awakened One (sayambhū), the unconquered.
With confident mind, glad, thrilled with joy, my joined palms raised in reverence,
taking a reed-garland (naḷamālā), I worshipped the Self-Awakened One.
Through that deed well done and through the resolutions of my intent,
on abandoning the kinnarī's body I went to Tāvatiṃsa.
I was chief queen of thirty-six deva-kings;
whatever I wished for in my mind arose just as I desired.
I was chief queen of ten wheel-turning monarchs (cakkavatti);
having become one whose store [of merit] was heaped up,¹ I wandered on among existences.
Wholesome merit is found in me; I went forth into homelessness;
today I am worthy of veneration in the dispensation of the Son of the Sakyans.
In the ninety-fourth aeon (kappa) from the present, since I worshipped the Buddha,
I know of no bad destination: this is the fruit of the reed-garland.
Today, pure in mind, rid of evil of mind,
with all taints (āsava) utterly destroyed, there is now no renewed existence.
My defilements (kilesa) have been burnt up; all existences have been extirpated;
like a she-elephant that has burst her bonds, I dwell without taints.
Welcome indeed was my coming into the presence of the Best of Buddhas!
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 (abhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
Thus indeed did the venerable bhikkhunī Naḷamālikā speak these verses.
The apadāna of Naḷamālikā Therī is concluded.
¹ The European edition reads "sacitattāva."
The Apadāna of Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī Therī, the seventh (17)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.