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Yellow myrobalan (harītakī), emblic myrobalan, mango, rose-apple, and beleric myrobalan,
jujube, marking-nut, and bael — I myself was bringing these.
Having seen the great sage gone to a mountain overhang — a meditator, a sage delighting in jhāna —
oppressed by illness, wayfaring, that great sage,
I took a yellow myrobalan and gave it to the Self-Awakened One (Sayambhū);
and no sooner was the medicine administered than the illness subsided at that very moment.
His distress gone, the Buddha gave the expression of appreciation (anumodanā):
"By this gift of medicine and by this allaying of the illness,
whether become a deva or a human, or born in some other birth,
may you be happy everywhere, and may illness never come to you."
Having said this, the Enlightened One, the Self-Awakened, the unvanquished,
the wise one rose up into the sky, like the king of swans in the heavens.
From the time I gave that yellow myrobalan to the Self-Awakened One, the great seer,
illness has not arisen for me, right up to this present birth.
This is my last; my final existence (bhava) is under way;
the three true knowledges (vijjā) have been attained; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
In the ninety-fourth aeon (kappa) from this one I then gave that medicine;
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of the medicine.
My defilements (kilesa) have been burned away; all existences have been rooted out;
like an elephant that has burst its bonds, I dwell without taints (āsava).
Welcome indeed was my coming into my Buddha's presence;
the three true knowledges 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 the Venerable Harītakidāyaka Thera spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of Harītakidāyaka Thera is concluded.
Ninth: the Apadāna of Ambapiṇḍiya Thera (439)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.