[217] **Release me, Sakka, from doubts** (pamuñca maṃ sakka kathaṅkathāhi): "Sakka" — the Blessed One went forth from the Sakyan clan; for this reason too he is Sakka. Or else, he is rich, of great wealth, possessed of wealth; for this reason too he is Sakka. He has these riches, namely: the wealth of faith (saddhā), the wealth of virtue (sīla), the wealth of moral shame (hiri), the wealth of moral dread (ottappa), the wealth of learning (suta), the wealth of generosity (cāga), the wealth of wisdom (paññā), the wealth of the establishments of mindfulness (satipaṭṭhāna), the wealth of the right strivings (sammappadhāna), the wealth of the bases of success (iddhipāda), the wealth of the faculties (indriya), the wealth of the powers (bala), the wealth of the factors of awakening (bojjhaṅga), the wealth of the path, the wealth of fruition (phala), the wealth of Nibbāna. Because he is rich, of great wealth, possessed of wealth through these manifold treasure-riches, for this reason too he is Sakka. Or else, he is able, capable, competent, heroic, valiant, courageous, not timid, not petrified, not frightened, not one who flees; he has abandoned fear and dread and is rid of horripilation; for this reason too he is Sakka.
"Doubts" (kathaṅkathā) is a term for doubt (vicikicchā): doubt about suffering (dukkha), doubt about the origin of suffering, doubt about the cessation of suffering, doubt about the way of practice leading to the cessation of suffering; doubt about the past, doubt about the future, doubt about both the past and the future; doubt about dhammas dependently arisen through specific conditionality (idappaccayatā); whatever doubt of such a kind there is — doubting, the state of being in doubt, perplexity, doubt, being in two minds, standing at a fork in the road, uncertainty, not grasping decisively, wavering, vacillating, failure to plunge in, rigidity of mind (citta), mental bewilderment.
**Release me, Sakka, from doubts**: release me, free me, set me free, lift me up, draw me out, raise me up from the dart of doubt; hence, "Release me, Sakka, from doubts." Therefore that brahmin said:
"I see, O deva, in the world of humans
a brahmin owning nothing, faring on;
you I revere, O All-seeing One (samantacakkhu):
release me, Sakka, from doubts."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.