[435] **Having done what had to be done, without taints (katakiccaṃ anāsavaṃ)**: For the Buddha, the Blessed One, the task — what is to be done and what is not to be done — has been abandoned, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, of a nature not to arise again in the future. Therefore the Buddha is one who has done what had to be done.
For the bhikkhu in whom there is no falling away, whose stream is cut off,
who has abandoned what is to be done and what is not to be done,
no fever is found.
**Having done what had to be done, without taints**: **Taints (āsava)**: there are four taints — the taint of sensuality (kāmāsava), the taint of existence (bhavāsava), the taint of views (diṭṭhāsava), and the taint of ignorance (avijjāsava). Those taints have been abandoned by the Buddha, the Blessed One, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, of a nature not to arise again in the future. Therefore the Buddha is without taints. Hence: having done what had to be done, without taints.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.