[690] "Well then, brahmin, learn these verses, and when a great crowd of people has assembled in the hall and your sons are seated together, recite them:
'Those at whose birth I rejoiced
and whose prosperity I desired —
they, conspiring with their wives,
bark at me as a dog at a pig.
Wicked and vile indeed are they,
though they address me "Father dear, father dear!"
Demons (rakkhasa) in the guise of sons,
thus they forsake me, come to old age.
As a horse grown old and useless
is led away from its fodder,
so the aged father of those fools
begs for alms at the houses of others.
Better indeed, it seems, is my staff
than sons who are disobedient:
it wards off even a fierce ox,
and a fierce dog as well;
in the dark it goes before me,
in the deep it gives me footing;
by the power of the staff,
having stumbled, one stands firm again.'"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.