[1956] "When I had entered the belly of a great elephant,
delighting in the carcass, greedy for elephant flesh,
the hot wind and the piercing rays of the sun
dried up that elephant's dung-passage.
"Thin and pale was I, venerable sir,
and there was no way for me to get out;
then a great cloud suddenly poured down rain,
and it moistened that dung-passage.
"Then I came out, venerable sir,
like the moon released from the mouth of Rāhu;
therefore I keep the uposatha:
may greed (lobha) not come to me again!"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.