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Atha kho nāgaseno dārako ācariyassa anuyogaṃ datvā pāsādā oruyha pubbavāsanāya coditahadayo rahogato paṭisallīno attano sippassa ādimajjhapariyosānaṃ olokento ādimhi vā majjhe vā pariyosāne vā appamattakampi sāraṃ adisvā "tucchā vata bho ime vedā, palāpā vata bho ime vedā asārā nissārā"ti vippaṭisārī anattamano ahosi.
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Then, after serious contemplation, Nāgasena concluded: “Empty indeed are these Vedas, void indeed are these Vedas, pithless, without pith.” And he was remorseful and displeased.
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And young Nāgasena repeated his lesson to his teacher for the last time, and went out of the house, and in obedience to an impulse arising in his heart as the result of previous Karma, sought a place of solitude, where he gave himself up to meditation. And he reviewed what he had learnt throughout from beginning to end, and found no value in it anywhere at all. And he exclaimed in bitterness of soul: ‘Empty forsooth are these Vedas, and as chaff. There is in them neither reality, nor worth, nor essential truth!’
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И юный Нагасена отчитался перед учителем и вышел из дому. Он уединился и сосредоточенно задумался, и, обозревая начало, середину и конец своего умения, он не нашел в нем даже малой сути – ни в начале, ни в середине, ни в конце. «Увы, пусты эти веды, увы, одна болтовня эти веды, нет в них сути, далеко им до сути!» – подумал он с раскаянием и недовольством.
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