[2490] "These, then, are the things of which my father Kassapa instructed me:
'Women are like the lotus (kamalā) — know them, young man (māṇava);
know those who bear swellings upon the breast — know them, young man!'
Thus did my father instruct me, as one who had compassion for me.
But his word I did not heed — the teaching of my wise father —
and so today I brood all alone in a forest devoid of human beings.
I shall act thus — fie upon this life of mine! —
either I shall again become such as I was, or death shall be mine."
# ¹ M. (Burmese ed.): avadhiṃ. ² M.: pamādo. ³ M.: kamalāsadisitthiyo.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.