[1114] "It is well with me, friends; and, friends, I am free from affliction;
my father, too, is in good health, and the Sivis are free from illness.
For I gave away the elephant — its tusks curved like chariot-poles, mighty,
a knower of the field of every battle, all white, the supreme of elephants —
draped with a yellow woolen blanket, in musth, a crusher of foes,
a tusker together with its yak-tail fan, white as Mount Kelāsa —
with its white parasol and its cushion, with its elephant-physician and its mahout:
the foremost of mounts, the royal carrier — I gave it to the brahmins (brāhmaṇa).
At that the Sivis were angered with me, and my father was stricken at heart;
the king has banished me — I am going to Mount Vaṅka.
Friends, make known to us a place in the forest where we may dwell."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.