[38] The Fully Awakened One named Sumedha, the compassionate Great Sage,[1]
having brought many beings across, that One of great fame attained final Nibbāna.
Close by the lion-throne of Sumedha, the Great Seer,
with a mind (citta) full of confidence, glad at heart, I had a footstool made.
Having done that wholesome deed, which ripens in happiness and yields happiness,[2]
bound up with meritorious deed, I went to Tāvatiṃsa.
While I dwelt there, endowed with meritorious deeds,
as I lifted my feet [to step], golden stools appeared for me.
Gains indeed are theirs — well gained! — who obtain a hearing [of him]:[3]
having rendered service to the One who has attained Nibbāna, they gain abundant happiness.
By me too a deed was well done, well invested as in trade:
having made a footstool, I obtain a stool of gold.
To whatever quarter I set out, on whatever business,[4]
I step upon stools of gold — this is the fruit of meritorious deed.
In the thirty-thousandth aeon [from now] I did that deed;
[since then] I know of no bad destination — this is the fruit of the footstool.
My defilements (kilesa) have been burned away; all existences (bhava) have been extirpated;
like an elephant that has sundered its bonds, I dwell free of taints (āsava).
The three true knowledges (vijjā) have been attained; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
The four analytic insights (paṭisambhidā), and also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
the six superknowledges (abhiññā) have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been done.
Thus indeed the Venerable Elder Pādapīṭhiya spoke these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Pādapīṭhiya is concluded.
The Ninth: the Apadāna of the Elder Vediyakāraka (449)
Edition notes (Siam Raṭṭha apparatus):
[1] M. (Burmese) and Yu. (European/PTS) editions read "aggo kāruṇiko muni" — "the foremost sage, the compassionate one."
[2] Yu. reads "sukhindriyaṃ" ("the faculty of happiness") for "sukhudrayaṃ."
[3] M., Yu. read "upassutiṃ" (accusative) for "upassuti."
[4] Yu. reads "paccayenahaṃ" ("for some reason/requisite") for "kiccayenahaṃ."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.