[63] At that time the Blessed One named Kosika dwelt on Mount Cittakūṭa —
a meditator delighting in jhāna, an Awakened One, a sage rejoicing in seclusion.
Having plunged deep into the Himavant, attended by a troop of women,
I saw the Buddha Kosika, like the moon on the very night of the full moon.
Taking a hundred torches, I then encircled the Buddha in attendance
for seven nights and days; on the eighth day I went [to him].
When the Buddha Kosika — the Self-Awakened One (sayambhū), the Unvanquished — had emerged [from his meditation],
I venerated him with a confident mind and gave a single alms-offering.
Because of that deed, O Lord of the Two-Footed, Eldest of the World, Bull among Men,
I arose in the Tusita host: this is the fruit of the single alms-offering.
Both by day and by night, light is mine at all times;
I pervade a hundred yojanas all around with radiance.
In the fifty-fifth aeon (kappa) I was a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti),
victorious over the four quarters, sovereign of the continent of Jambu.
At that time my city was rich, flourishing, well fashioned,
thirty yojanas in length and twenty in breadth.
The city, Sobhana by name, was created by Vissakamma,
never empty of the ten sounds, furnished with cymbals and gongs.
In that city there was no creeper, no timber, no clay;
made wholly of gold, it shone perpetually.
It was encircled by four ramparts; three of these were made of gems;
and in their midst was a row of palm trees fashioned by Vissakamma.
There were ten thousand lotus ponds, covered over with pink and blue lotuses,
overspread with white lotuses and the rest, wafted with fragrances of every kind.
In the ninety-fourth aeon from now I bore that torch;
I know of no bad destination (duggati): this is the fruit of bearing the torch.
My defilements (kilesa) have been burned away; all existences (bhava) have been extirpated;
like an elephant that has burst its bonds, I dwell free of 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 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 did the Venerable Elder Ukkāsatika speak these verses.
The Apadāna of the Elder Ukkāsatika is concluded.
The fourth: the Apadāna of the Elder Sumanavījaniya (474).
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.