[452] Afflicted by sorrow (soka) for my son, my mind (citta) deranged, out of my senses,
naked and with dishevelled hair, weeping I wandered about because of it.
On streets and rubbish heaps, in the charnel ground (susāna) and on carriage-roads,
I wandered for three years, beset by hunger and thirst.
Then I saw the Well-Farer (sugata), gone to the city of Mithilā,
the tamer of the untamed, the Fully Enlightened One (sambuddha), who fears nothing from any quarter.
Having regained my mind, I paid homage and sat down;
out of compassion he, Gotama, taught me the Dhamma.
Having heard his Dhamma, I went forth into homelessness;
applying myself to the Teacher's word, I realized the blissful state (padaṃ sivaṃ).
All sorrows have been cut off, abandoned, ended in this;
for I have fully understood the grounds from which sorrows have their arising.
Vāsiṭṭhī.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.