[1122] The Cetas, their eyes filled with tears, their faces wet with weeping, instructed him:
"Go from here, great king, straight on by the way that faces north.
Then, sire, you will see the mountain named Vepulla,
strewn with hosts of manifold trees, cool-shaded and delightful.
Passing beyond it, sire, you will then see a flowing river,
the stream named Ketumatī, deep, issuing from a mountain gorge,
teeming with broad-finned fish, with lovely fords, its waters abundant.
Bathing and drinking there, and comforting [yourselves] together with your little children,
then, sire, you will see a banyan tree with honey-sweet fruit,
grown upon a delightful crest, cool-shaded and delightful.
Then, sire, you will see the rocky mountain named Nālika,
strewn with flocks of manifold birds, thronged with kiṃpurisas.
To the north-east of it lies the lake named Mucalinda,
covered over with white lotuses and with white sweet-scented water-lilies.
Like a lion on the watch for prey, plunge into that woodland thicket,
a forest like a dark rain-cloud, ever green with tender grass,
covered over with flowering trees and with fruiting trees, both together.
There many birds of manifold hues, lovely, with full mellifluous notes,
call and call back to one another upon the trees in seasonal bloom.
Going by the rugged mountain ways and the sources of the rivers,
you will behold a lotus pond set about with karañja and kakudha trees,
teeming with broad-finned fish, with lovely fords, its waters abundant,
level and foursquare, its water sweet and free of any foul smell.
To the north-east of it build a leaf-hut,
and having built the leaf-hut, apply yourselves to the life of gleaning."
(This is) the [chapter] named Vanappavesana — the Entry into the Forest.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.