[16] The Blessed One, of well-composed thought, the eldest of the world, the bull among men,
had entered the great forest, oppressed by an ailment of wind.
[Apparatus, pertaining to the preceding apadāna on this page: ¹ Ma.: sakosakaṃ; Yu.: sakoṭakaṃ. ² Ma.: suppabhāso.]
Seeing him, I made my mind (citta) confident and brought him ghee-scum (ghaṭamaṇḍa);
because of that deed done and the reverence paid,¹ this Ganges, the Bhāgīrasī,²
and the four great oceans turn to ghee for me;
and this dreadful earth, measureless, incalculable,
knowing my intention, becomes honey and sugar;
these trees of the four quarters,³ plants that spring up from the soil,
knowing my intention, become wish-granting trees.
Fifty times, as lord of the devas, I exercised the kingship of the devas;
and fifty-one times I was a universal monarch (cakkavatti);
[I held] extensive local kingship, incalculable by count.
In the ninety-fourth aeon from now, whatever gift I gave then —
[since then] I know of no bad destination: this is the fruit of the ghee-scum.
My defilements have been burned away; all existences have been uprooted;
like an elephant that has burst its bonds, I dwell free of taints (āsava).
Welcome indeed was my coming into my Buddha's presence:
the three true knowledges (vijjā) have been attained; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Elder Ghaṭamaṇḍadāyaka speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Ghaṭamaṇḍadāyaka is concluded.
[Apparatus: ¹ Ma., Yu.: ācitattā ca ("and because of what was heaped up"). ² Ma.: Bhāgīrathī. ³ Ma., Yu.: cātuddīpā ("on the four continents").]
The seventh: the Apadāna of the Elder Ekadhammasavaniya (427)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.