[20] The Buddha, worthy of esteem (manobhāvanīya), self-tamed, concentrated,
moving upon the sublime path (brahmapatha), delighting in the stilling of the mind (citta);
the Fully Awakened One who had crossed the flood (ogha), a meditator delighting in jhāna, the sage,
entered upon attainment (samāpatti), restrained in the sense faculties —
taking water with a gourd, I approached that best of Buddhas;
having washed the Buddha's feet, I gave him the gourd.
And the Fully Awakened One named Padumuttara commanded me:
"Fetch water with this [gourd] and set it down at my feet."
Having assented, "Very well!", out of reverence for the Teacher,
I fetched water with the gourd and brought it to the best of Buddhas.
The Great Hero, cooling my mind, expressed his appreciation:
"By this gift of a gourd, may your intention succeed."
In the fifteenth aeon from now I delighted in the deva world,
and thirty-three times I was a king, a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti).
Whether by day or by night, as I walked or as I stood,
[attendants] stood before me holding a golden water-vessel (kontara).
Having given a gourd to the Buddha, I obtain a golden water-vessel:
even a small service rendered becomes vast [when done] to such ones (tādisa).
In the hundred-thousandth aeon from now, since I gave the gourd then,
I know of no bad destination: this is the fruit of the gourd.
My defilements (kilesa) have been burned away; all existences have been eradicated;
like an elephant that has sundered its bonds, I dwell without taints (āsava).
Welcome indeed was it for me in the presence of my Buddha:
the three true knowledges (vijjā) have been attained; the Buddha's teaching (sāsana) has been done.
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 did the Venerable Sovaṇṇakontarika Thera speak these verses.
The Apadāna of Sovaṇṇakontarika Thera is concluded.
Summary (uddāna):
The elder Sakiṃsammajjaka; the givers of the single cloth and of the seat;
the givers of kadamba and of koraṇḍaka [flowers]; the [giver of the] pot[-scum] and the hearer [of the Dhamma] too;
Sucintita, Kiṅkaṇika, and Soṇṇakontarika as well.
And herein are one hundred verses and exactly seventy-one.
The Sakiṃsammajjaka Chapter, the Forty-third.
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The Forty-fourth: the Ekavihāri Chapter
First, the Apadāna of Ekavihāriya Thera (431)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.