[417] He is not mute, nor is he crippled; he is one of clear and fluent speech.
It was, so it is said, from fear of kingship that he made many pretences.
He remembers his former birth, in which he exercised kingship;
having wielded kingship there, he fell into a dreadful hell (niraya).
For twenty years he exercised kingship there;
for eighty thousand years he roasted in hell.
In fear of that kingship — thinking, "Let them not anoint me to the kingship!" —
he therefore did not speak then in the presence of his father and mother.
Endowed with all his limbs, great and small, of fine height and girth,
of fluent speech and wise, he stands upon the path to heaven (sagga).
If you wish to see the prince, your own son,
come — I shall bring you to the place where Temiya dwells.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.