[2287] "That delightful Kosikī beside which you sit, brahmin —
I am she who dwells there, her abode in the earth,
a mighty flood bearing excellent waters.
Many mountain gorges, strewn with throngs of every kind of tree,
have their outflow toward me alone; they come streaming down in the rains.
And many, besides, are the waters from the woods, bearing currents of dark-blue water,
and many whose waters are made iridescent by nāgas — they come streaming down with their flood.
These bring down, again and again, many kinds of fruit —
mango and rose-apple and breadfruit, kadamba, palmyra, and udumbara fig.
Whatever fruit falls into the water from either bank,
without doubt that fruit comes under the power of the stream.
Understanding this, O wise one, listen to me, you of broad wisdom:
do not delight in attachment (abhisaṅga); reject it, O lord of the people!
I do not deem it growth, O prosperer of the realm,
that you, royal sage, wasting away, should long for death.
The fathers know of such a one, and the gandhabbas together with the devas;
and whatever sages there are in the world, self-restrained and austere —
without doubt even they, steadfast and glorious, know of him."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.