[2058] Let them yoke my royal chariots, well wrought, with ornately stitched trappings;
bind the girths of the elephants; fasten on their neck-ornaments.
[Page apparatus — variant readings: ¹ Burmese ed.: "evamevaṃ." ² Sinhalese and European (PTS) edd.: "cittaṃ vijānāhi." ³ Burmese ed.: "paṭigāhi."]
[⁴ In the Burmese ed. the word "nu" is absent. ⁵ There is also the reading "api nu te gāmavaraṃ dadeyyā ti."]
Let the kettledrums, tabors, and conches be sounded,
and let swift carriages be harnessed;
this very day I shall go to that hermitage,
where I shall see the sage seated.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.