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"'I shall dam up the Gaṅgā!' — yet I am not able, brahmin,
to close up that great river; how then could that come to be?
Asked about the good (attha) and the Dhamma (dhamma), I am not able to declare them to you.
But there is Bhadrakāra, my son, my own breast-born son, sprung from myself:
go, brahmin, and ask him about the good and the Dhamma."
[Apparatus embedded at the page break, pertaining to the preceding passage: ¹ Burmese ed.: mahattaṃ. ² Sinhalese ed.: nikkhaṃ ratta…; European ed.: nikkhamimaṃ. ³ Burmese ed.: dajjā.]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.