[148] And seeing him approaching, blazing as it were with majesty, arrayed about with a host of khattiyas, Kosiya said this:
"Whose kettledrums and tabors, conches, paṇava-drums and dindima-drums, going on before, gladden the bull among charioteers (rathesabha)?
Whose [brow] is bound with a broad plate of gold, hued like the lightning — a youth girt with a quiver of arrows? Who comes blazing in splendor?
And whose face shines resplendent, like [gold] burnished at the mouth of the furnace, glowing like embers of khadira wood? Who comes blazing in splendor?
For whom is the parasol held aloft, with its ribs, delighting the mind, a screen against the rays of the sun? Who comes blazing in splendor?
Encircling whose person do they attend with the supreme yak-tail fan, as he, of excellent merit, comes upon an elephant's shoulder?
Whose white parasols and armored thoroughbreds throng about on every side? Who comes blazing in splendor?
Whose one hundred and one khattiyas, vassals of renown, circle round about on every side? Who comes blazing in splendor?
And whose fourfold army — elephant troops, cavalry, chariots, and infantry — circles round about on every side? Who comes blazing in splendor?
Whose is this mighty army that follows behind him — innumerable, without limit, like the waves of the ocean?"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.