[270] "With my intentions unfulfilled,
doubting and uncertain,
I wandered for a long time,
searching for the Tathāgata.
Those whom I supposed to be ascetics,
dwelling in seclusion,
thinking, 'These are Fully Awakened Ones,'
I went to sit in attendance upon them.
'How is there success?
How is there failure?'
Questioned thus, they could not answer
concerning the path and the ways of practice.
But when they came to know of me,
'It is Sakka, come from among the gods,'
then it was they who questioned me:
'What did you do to attain this state?'
I taught them the Dhamma as I had heard it,
as it is heard among the people;
with just that much they were pleased, saying,
'We have seen Vāsava!'
But when I beheld the Fully Awakened One,
who has crossed over doubt,
then, free from fear, today
I have sat in attendance upon the Fully Awakened One.
The destroyer of the dart of craving (taṇhā),
the Buddha, who has no counterpart—
I pay homage to the Great Hero,
the Buddha, Kinsman of the Sun.
That homage which we, together with the gods,
pay to Brahmā, dear sir,
that today I shall give to you:
come, let us pay homage to you ourselves!
You alone are the Fully Awakened One, awakened to the auspicious (sivaṃ);
you are the Teacher unsurpassed;
in the world together with its gods
there is no one who is your equal."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.