[19] Out of faith I renounced and went forth into homelessness;
I became a wearer of bark-fiber garments, given over to the practice of austerities (tapokamma).
But at that time there arose Atthadassī, the Blessed One,
the Eldest of the World, the Bull among Men, bringing the great multitude across.
And truly my strength was spent through an extreme illness;
recollecting the Best of Buddhas, [I raised] a supreme stūpa upon the sand.
Having made it, with delighted mind, straightaway I strewed
golden kiṅkaṇi flowers (soṇṇakiṅkaṇi-puppha) upon it, uplifted in heart.
As though the Fully Awakened One were present face to face, I attended upon that stūpa;
by that confidence of heart in Atthadassī, the steadfast one (tādī),
gone to the deva-world, I received abundant happiness;
there I was of golden complexion — this is the fruit of worship of the Buddha (buddhapūjā).
Eighty koṭis of women, fully adorned,
always attended upon me — this is the fruit of worship of the Buddha.
Sixty thousand musical instruments — drums and tabors,
conches and ḍeṇḍima drums, and kettledrums — sounded sweetly there.
Eighty-four thousand elephants, fully caparisoned —
mātaṅga tuskers in threefold rut, sixty years of age —
covered over with nets of gold, did service to me;
no deficiency was there for me in my force of troops or in my existence.
I experience the ripened result (vipāka) of the golden kiṅkaṇi flowers;
fifty-eight times I exercised rulership among the devas (devarajja).
And seventy-one times I was a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti);
a hundred times I wielded the kingship of the earth upon the land.
Now I have attained the Deathless (amata), the profound state hard to see;
the fetters (saṃyojana) are utterly destroyed; now there is no renewed existence (punabbhava).
It was eighteen hundred aeons ago that I offered that flower:
I know of no bad destination (duggati) — this is the fruit of worship of the Buddha.
My defilements (kilesa) have been burned away; all existences have been uprooted;
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 these eight liberations (vimokkha) too,
and the six superknowledges (chaḷabhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Elder Soṇṇakiṅkaṇiya speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Soṇṇakiṅkaṇiya is concluded.
Tenth: The Apadāna of the Elder Sovaṇṇakontarika (430)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.