The book prints two chants under this name on the same page, in roman script. This is the shorter of the two, and it functions as an opening to the thirty-four verses that follow rather than as a separate text.

Its register is markedly unlike the collection it sits beside. Where the parittas ask for safety, this opens by promising what people want.

The first line is the frankest sentence in the book: one who wants a son gains a son; one who wants wealth gains wealth. No condition is attached and no qualification follows it.

The second line is harder to follow and the English here is a working translation of a compressed and difficult text — in the body of what is sought, by knowledge of the body, the learned one is dear to the devas. It is worth knowing that the Pali itself is unclear at this point, not only the rendering.

The third runs a string of names and epithets together without separation — the Blessed One, Yama the king, Vessuvaṇṇa, the ease of death, the worthy one, the well-gone — and closes on homage to the Buddha. This running-together is characteristic of chants used as formulas rather than read as sentences.