[1341] "If you grant me a boon, O Sakka, sovereign of all beings,
then may neither mind nor body [of mine], O Sakka,
at any time strike against or injure anyone —
this, O Sakka, is the boon I choose."
[Apparatus footnotes to the printed page:]
#1 Ma. (Burmese ed.): tvaṃ. #2 Also read: sampassasīti. #3 Sī. (Sinhalese ed.), Yu. (European ed.): paṭhamā. #4 Ma.: saṅgathitā.
#5 Ma.: mā. #6 Ma.: maṃ kate.
[Translator's note: The verse is translated according to the Siam Raṭṭha base reading maṅkute (มงฺกุเต), construed as the Thai Royal version construes it: the speaker's own mind and body are the agents that must never strike against or offend anyone. Under the Burmese variant maṃ kate, "on my account" (footnote 6), the construal reverses: "may the mind or body of no one ever be injured on my account." The base text is translated here; the variant is recorded, not adopted. The verse number [1341] belongs to the continuous editorial numbering of the Siam Raṭṭha edition (vol. 27) and is not printed in the Pali excerpt itself.]
The Kaṇha Birth-Story (Kaṇhajātaka), the second, is ended.
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3. The Catuposatha Birth-Story (Catuposathajātaka)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.