[2507] No great fear came upon me;
they were not able to crush my power (tejo).
For the principles of the good (sataṃ dhammāni), well proclaimed,
are hard to transgress, like the boundary of the ocean.
O Aḷāra, on the fourteenth and the fifteenth day
I constantly observe the Uposatha (uposatha).
Then there came sixteen Bhojaputtas,
taking a rope and a stout snare.
Splitting my nose and drawing the rope through it,
the cruel men seized me on every side and led me away.
Such suffering (dukkha) I endured,
without violating the Uposatha.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.