[24] The King of Magadha,
Soṇa, the leader of 80,000
Sāgata, on Vulture Peak,
displayed many marvels.
Acceptance, exerting, they split,
a vīṇa, single-soled,
blue/green, yellow, blood-red,
crimson, and black.
Orange and beige,
and with straps: He prohibited them.
Heel-coverings, boots, and shoes.
cotton, partridge, rams, and goats.
Scorpion, peacock, decorated,
lion, tiger, and leopard,
black antelope, otter, and cat,
squirrel and flying fox —
they were embellished.
Split, leather footwear, and corns,
(un-)washed, stumps, clacking,
palmyra, bamboo, and also grass:
muñja, reeds, and marshy date-palm.
Kamala grass, wool, and gold,
silver, gems, lapis lazuli,
crystal, bronze, and glass,
tin, lead, and copper.
A cow, a vehicle, and a sick (monk),
yoked by a man [with a bull], a sedan chair,
furnishings for reclining, large skins,
with cow-hide, the evil (monk).
Householders’ (furnishings), with leather straps,
they entered, the sick one.
Mahā Kaccāna, Soṇa,
the Aṭṭhaka Vagga, chanted,
Acceptance with the fifth,
multi-soled, regular bathing.
[1]
He allowed hide-coverings,
[2]
no counting of the time-span until.
The leader granted these five requests
to the Elder Soṇa.