[223] "I have no need of a retinue, of a city, or of wealth;
we go our way through the pathless — we are travelers in the sky.
[Page apparatus (variant readings): ¹ Also read: *vipallattha*. ² Burmese ed.: *tapanīyanibhā*. ³ Burmese ed.: *bruvāno*. ⁴ Burmese ed.: *cajanto*. ⁵ Burmese ed.: *atha kiṃ dāni*; Sinhalese and European (PTS) eds.: *atha kinnu*. ⁶ Burmese ed.: *vammite*.]
We are known to you by report as wise and as subtle thinkers upon meaning¹ (attha);
we would speak words full of meaning, were [you] established in truth (sacca).
But what will even a word well spoken do for you —
untruthful, ignoble, given to false speech (musāvāda), and cruel?"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.