These are the first three utterances of the Udāna, spoken in the days immediately following the awakening. The tradition places them in the three watches of a single night, and the book's footnote points to the Udāna together with its Vinaya parallel, where the same verses open the account of the Buddha's first weeks after enlightenment.

The three stanzas are built on repetition. The first two lines are identical in all three, and the third line is identical in the first two, so what changes is only the ending — which is where each stanza's point lies. The book prints the repeated lines out in full rather than abbreviating them.

No Thai rendering is printed on this page, so the entry stands at two of the five layers.

The shared opening sets the condition: when things become manifest to a brahmin who is ardent and meditating. The word used for the practitioner is พ์ราห์มะณัสสะ, brahmin — not in the sense of birth or caste, but in the sense the Buddha regularly gave the word, of one who has actually done the work.

The first stanza ends with knowing things together with their causes, สะเหตุธัมมัง. The second ends with knowing the destruction of those conditions, ขะยัง ปัจจะยานัง. These are the two halves of dependent origination, arising and cessation, which is why the book places these verses immediately after the Paṭiccasamuppādapāṭho — the previous chant states the formula, and this one records what it was like to see it.

The third stanza changes shape. Instead of naming something known, it gives an image: he stands scattering the host of Māra, like the sun lighting up the sky. Nothing is added to the doctrine; what is added is what the knowing looks like from outside. The first two stanzas say what was understood, and the third says what such understanding does.