[617] **Vow (vatta)**, in the phrase "having undertaken a vow, they stand established": that is, having taken, undertaken, taken up, grasped, misapprehended, and adhered to the elephant-vow (hatthivatta) [the practice of behaving after the manner of an elephant], or the horse-vow, or the cow-vow, or the goat-vow, or the dog-vow, or the crow-vow, or the Vāsudeva-vow, or the Puṇṇabhadda-vow, or the Maṇibhadda-vow, or the fire-vow, or the nāga-vow, or the supaṇṇa-vow, or the yakkha-vow, or the asura-vow, or the gandhabba-vow, or the Great-Kings-vow, or the moon-vow, or the sun-vow, or the Inda-vow, or the Brahmā-vow, or the deva-vow, or the direction-vow, they are established, firmly established, attached, come to, cleaved to, and resolved upon it. Therefore it is said, "having undertaken a vow, they stand established."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.