[733] I pay homage to you, O elephant, who wander alone,
forest-dweller whose resort is the mountain slopes;
with my wings I make añjali to you:
do not slay my little ones — weak as I am.
[Apparatus preserved from the Siam Raṭṭha page: ¹ Burmese ed.: "koraṇḍiya hāhasi." ² Burmese ed.: "sace ahaṃ bhūtadharaṃ na sakkā." ³ Burmese ed.: "koraṇḍiya." ⁴ Burmese ed.: "kattuṃ." ⁵ Burmese ed.: "kuṇjara" (i.e. kuñjara, vocative). Notes ¹–⁴ belong to preceding text on the same page; only note ⁵ falls within this verse.]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.