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A disciple of the Blessed One Padumuttara, Sujāta by name,
was then searching for rag-cloth (paṃsukūla) on a rubbish heap along the carriage-road.
In the city of Haṃsavatī I was a laborer hired by others;
having given half a cloth, I paid homage with my head.
Through that deed well done, and through my intention and aspirations,
on abandoning the human body I went to Tāvatiṃsa.
Thirty-three times, as lord of the devas, I exercised divine rulership;
and seventy-seven times I was a wheel-turning monarch (cakkavatti).
Extensive regional kingship [I held], incalculable by reckoning;
through the gift of half a cloth I rejoice, without fear from any quarter.
Should I wish it, today I could cover [this earth] with its forests and mountains
with linen cloths (khoma): this is the fruit of half a cloth.
The gift I gave then, a hundred thousand aeons from now —
I know of no bad destination: this is the fruit of half a cloth.
My defilements (kilesa) have been burned up; all existences have been rooted out;
like an elephant that has sundered 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 did the Venerable Upaḍḍhadussadāyaka the Elder speak these verses.
The Apadāna of Upaḍḍhadussadāyaka the Elder is concluded.
The Sixth: The Apadāna of Ghatamaṇḍadāyaka the Elder (496)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.