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"It is well indeed with me, brahmin, and also, brahmin, I am free from illness;
moreover, I sustain myself by gleaning (uñcha), and roots and fruits are plentiful.
Moreover, gadflies and mosquitoes and creeping creatures are but few;
in the forest teeming with beasts of prey, no harm befalls me.
Through the many long years that I have dwelt settled in the hermitage,
I do not recall any disagreeable ailment having arisen.
Welcome to you, great brahmin; truly, you have not come amiss.
Enter within, good sir; wash your feet.
Tinduka and piyāla fruits, madhuka and kāsamārī,
fruits sweet as honey — eat, brahmin, of the choicest.
This drinking water too is cool, brought from a mountain grotto;
drink of it, great brahmin, if you so desire."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.