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Having plunged into a sāla grove in full bloom, the sage (muni) Vessabhū
sat down in the mountain fastnesses, like a nobly born maned lion (kesarī).
#1 Ma. (Burmese ed.): Uttaripupphiyatthera…; Yu. (European ed.): Utuḷhipupphiyatthera…
#2 Ma.: uttarimālaṃ; Yu.: utuḷhimālaṃ. 3 Yu.: yaṃ pupphamabhiropayiṃ.
With a confident mind (citta), glad at heart, I made offering with a hog-plum (ambāṭaka) flower
to the Great Hero,¹ the field of merit (puññakkhetta) — full of confidence, with my own hands.
In the thirty-first aeon from now, since I offered up that flower,
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of worship of the Buddha.
My defilements (kilesa) have been burnt away; all existences (bhava) have been extirpated;
like an elephant (nāga) 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 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 the Venerable Elder Ambāṭakiya spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Ambāṭakiya is concluded.
The seventh: the Apadāna of the Elder Sīhāsanika (447)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.