etena dukkhena pavedhitosmi
akkhāhi me senaka etamatthanti.
Tattha vajatoti gehaṃ gacchantassa. Agacchatoti agacchantassa. Yakkhoti antarāmagge ekā rukkhadevatā evamāhāti vadati. Sā kira devatā pasibbake te brāhmaṇa kaṇhasappoti anācikkhantī bodhisattassa ñāṇānubhāvappakāsanatthaṃ nācikkhi. Etena dukkhenāti gacchato bhariyāya maraṇadukkhena agacchato attano maraṇadukkhena etenasmi pavedhito phandito kampito. Etamatthanti etaṃ kāraṇaṃ yena me kāraṇena gacchato bhariyāya maraṇaṃ agacchato attano maraṇaṃ hoti etaṃ me kāraṇaṃ akkhāhīti attho.
Mahāsatto brāhmaṇassa vacanaṃ sutvā samuddamatthake jālaṃ Khipanto viya ñāṇajālaṃ pattharitvā imesaṃ sattānaṃ bahūni maraṇakāraṇāni samudde nimuggāpi maranti tattha bālamacchehi gahitāpi gaṅgāya patitāpi tattha suṃsumārena gahitāpi rukkhato patitāpi kaṇṭhakena viddhāpi nānappakārehi āvudhehi pahatāpi visaṃ khāditvāpi ubbattitvā papāte patitāpi atisītādīhi nānappakārehi vā rogehi upaddūtāpi marantiyeva evaṃ bahūsu maraṇakāraṇesu katarena nu kho kāraṇena ajjesa brāhmaṇo antarāmagge vasanto sayaṃ marissati gehamassa vajato bhariyā marissatīti cintesi cantento ca brāhmaṇassa khandhe pasibbakaṃ disvā imasmiṃ pasibbake ekena sappena paviṭṭhena bhavitabbaṃ pavisanto ca pana so sappo imasmiṃ brāhmaṇe pātarāsasamaye sattuṃ khāditvā pasibbakamukhaṃ abandhitvāva pānīyaṃ pātuṃ gate sattugandhena paviṭṭho bhavissati brāhmaṇo pānīyaṃ pivitvā āgato sappassa paviṭṭhabhāvaṃ ajānitvā pasibbakaṃ bandhitvā ādāya pakkanto bhavissati svāyaṃ antarāmagge vasanto sāyaṃ vasanaṭṭhāne sattuṃ khādissāmīti pasibbakaṃ muñcitvā hatthaṃ pavesessati atha naṃ sappo hatthe ḍaṃsitvā jīvitakkhayaṃ pāpessati idamassa antarāmagge vasantassa maraṇakāraṇaṃ sace pana gehaṃ gaccheyya pasibbako bhariyāya hatthagato bhavissati sā antobhaṇḍaṃ olokessāmīti pasibbakaṃ muñcitvā hatthaṃ pavesessati atha naṃ sappo ḍaṃsitvā jīvitakkhayaṃ pāpessati idamassa ajja gehaṃ gatassa bhariyāya maraṇakāraṇanti upāyakosallañāṇeneva aññāsi. Athassa etadahosi Iminā kaṇhasappena sūrena nibbhayena bhavitabbaṃ ayaṃ hi brāhmaṇassa mahāphāsukaṃ paharantopi pasibbake attano calanaṃ vā phandanaṃ vā na dassesi evarūpāya parisāya majjhepi attano atthibhāvaṃ na dassesi tasmā iminā kaṇhasappena sūrena nibkayena bhavitabbanti idaṃpi so upāyakosallañāṇeneva dibbacakkhunā passanto viya aññāsi. Evaṃ sarājikāya parisāya majjhe sappaṃ pasibbake pavesantaṃ disvā ṭhitapuriso viya mahāsatto upāyakusalañāṇeneva paricchinditvā brāhmaṇassa pañhaṃ kathento tatiyaṃ gāthamāha