[709] **Like a king who has abandoned his conquered realm (rājāva raṭṭhaṃ vijitaṃ pahāya):** a king, a warrior-noble (khattiya), consecrated by the anointing of the head, victorious in battle, whose adversaries are struck down, who has attained his aims, whose storehouses are full — having relinquished his realm and his country, his storehouse¹, his abundant silver and gold, and his city; having shaved off his hair and beard, put on the ochre robes, gone forth from the home life into homelessness, and attained the state of owning nothing — wanders alone, roams, moves, conducts himself, maintains himself, sustains himself, keeps himself going. Even so the Paccekasambuddha, having cut off all the impediment of household life, cut off the impediment of children and wife, cut off the impediment of relatives, cut off the impediment of friends and companions; having shaved off his hair and beard, put on the ochre robes, gone forth from the home life into homelessness, and attained the state of owning nothing — wanders alone, roams, moves, conducts himself, maintains himself, sustains himself, keeps himself going. Hence, "like a king who has abandoned his conquered realm." **One should wander alone like a rhinoceros horn.** Therefore that Paccekasambuddha said:
If one should not find a prudent companion,
a fellow-wanderer of good conduct, a wise one,
then, like a king who has abandoned his conquered realm,
one should wander alone like a rhinoceros horn.
¹ Footnote in the Siam Raṭṭha edition: the Burmese (M.) edition reads *koṭṭhaṃ*.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.