[1058] Men of rank, princes, vessas (merchants and farmers), and brahmins,
elephant riders, guardsmen, charioteers, and foot soldiers,
the whole town, and the Sivis too, assembled together;
seeing the elephant being led away, they informed the king:
"Sire, your son Vessantara is laying waste your realm!
How could he give away our elephant, the tusker honored by the kingdom?
How could he give away our tusker, with tusks like chariot-poles, majestic,
knowing the terrain of every battle, all white, the supreme of elephants,
covered with a pale-yellow woolen blanket, in musth, a crusher of foes,
the tusker with his yak-tail fan, white as Mount Kelāsa —
together with his white parasol, his rug, his elephant-doctor, and his elephant keeper,
the foremost of vehicles, the royal mount — he has given as a gift to brahmins!"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.