Be joined with your former wife, do not come under the control of wrath.

I will make another bowstring, enough of the old one.

A man might not desire her, do you believe this, Mahosadha?

Fortune and misfortune never come together."

She whom she called "my young lord," women are fit to be killed, there is no truth in women.

And of this wicked wife, while she is still living, cut off her ears and nose."

For those acting hastily, the unrestrained, surely there are none to restrain them.

And he passes away from the heavenly state, is he not thereby destroyed?

The jackal departed from it, knowing it was guarded by a lion.

It does not thereby become a non-river, forgive if she is dear to you.

They will go to disaster, like merchants with the she-demons.

They will go safely to the far shore, like merchants with Valāha.

And he does not give him his eyes, and he acts in opposition.

By which a wise person would know an enemy, having seen and having heard.

I wonder, dear son, does your mother not associate with another?

One would lie like a Poṭṭhapāda, boiled in the embers.

That this one, having descended to the store-room, says "I did not see."

Having made an agreement for two months, meat from an old bull, lean;

We ask you, brahmin, which of them should we choose?

There is benefit in one well-born, morality pleases us.