[6] When the Well-Gone One (Sugata) had attained final Nibbāna (parinibbuta) —
Siddhattha, the Leader of the World —
all beings, devas together with humans,
venerated him, the supreme among two-footed beings (dipaduttama).
And when Siddhattha, the Leader of the World,
had been raised upon the pyre,
each according to his own strength
they venerated the pyre of the Teacher.
Not far from the pyre
I kindled a lamp;
until the sun rose,
so long did my lamp keep blazing.
Through that deed well done
and through my volitions and aspirations,
having abandoned the human body,
I went to Tāvatiṃsa.
There a well-made mansion of mine
is known as "Ekadīpa" ("One Lamp");
a hundred thousand lamps
blaze in my mansion.
Like the very rising sun,
my body shines¹ at all times;
with the radiance of my body
there is light for me at all times.
Beyond walls, beyond rock,
surmounting the mountain,
I see with my eye
a hundred yojanas all around.
Seventy-seven times
I delighted in the deva world,
and thirty-one times
I exercised kingship over the devas.
Twenty-eight times
I was a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti),
and [I held] extensive regional kingship,
incalculable by reckoning.
Passing away from the deva world,
I was reborn in my mother's womb;
even while I dwelt in my mother's womb,
my eye did not perish.²
At four years from birth
I went forth into homelessness;
before half a month had passed,
I attained Arahantship (arahatta).
[¹ Ma. reads jotate ("gleams"); Yu. reads rājate ("is resplendent"). ² Ma. and Yu. read na nimīlati ("did not close").]
I purified the divine eye (dibbacakkhu);
all existences (bhava) have been extirpated;
all defilements (kilesa) have been severed:
this is the fruit of the single lamp.
Beyond walls, beyond rock,
and even the whole mountain —
passing over them, I see:
this is the fruit of the single lamp.
Uneven places become even for me;
darkness is not found;
I see no gloom:
this is the fruit of the single lamp.
In the ninety-fourth aeon (kappa) from now,
that I then gave a lamp —
[since then] I know of no bad destination (duggati):
this is the fruit of the single lamp.
My defilements have been burnt away;
all existences have been extirpated;
like an elephant that has burst its bonds,
I dwell without taints (anāsava).
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 also these eight liberations (vimokkha),
the six superknowledges (abhiññā) have been realized;
the Buddha's teaching has been done.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Ekadīpiya Thera speak these verses.
The Apadāna of Ekadīpiya Thera is concluded.
The Seventh: the Apadāna of Ucchaṅgapupphiya Thera (417)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.