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"In crafts, in branches of knowledge (vijjā), in conduct, and in deeds,
he wished: 'How might they learn quickly?'
What conduces to the harm of no one —
that he taught swiftly; one is not long wearied.
Having done that wholesome deed with happiness as its outcome,
he gains calves pleasing and well-set,
rounded, shapely, tapering upward by even degrees,
their hairs up-pointing, overspread with delicate skin.
'Antelope-calved' — so they called that person;
they declared it here the mark of swift success:
his hairs each arising singly — whatever he longs for,
while yet not gone forth, he swiftly attains it here.
But if one such takes up the going forth (pabbajjā),
delighting in the wish for renunciation (nekkhamma), clear-sighted,
then whatever conforms to what is fitting for him —
that he finds swiftly, he of supreme exertion."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.