[1113] Seeing him, the Ceta chiefs, weeping, approached him [and asked]:
"We trust, sire (deva), that it is well with you; we trust, sire, that you are free from affliction.
[#1 M.: phaline. 2 M.: ubbiddhā. 3 M.: parivāriṃsu. 4 M.: vata ayyā. — variant readings, Burmese edition]
We trust that your father is free from disease, and that the Sivis are in health.
Where is your army, great king? Where indeed is your array of chariots?
Horseless and chariotless, you have come this long road—
can it be that, beset by enemies, you have arrived in this quarter?"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.