1At Sāvatthī.

Now at that time the Buddha had gone into retreat for the day’s meditation. Then the independent brahmās Subrahmā and Suddhāvāsa went to the Buddha and stationed themselves one by each door-post.

Then Subrahmā recited this verse about the mendicant Kokālika in the Buddha’s presence:

2“What wise person here would judge
the immeasurable by measuring them?
I think anyone who’d do such a thing
must be an ordinary person, wrapped in darkness.”

1Sāvatthinidānaṁ.

Tena kho pana samayena bhagavā divāvihāragato hoti paṭisallīno. Atha kho subrahmā ca paccekabrahmā suddhāvāso ca paccekabrahmā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā paccekaṁ dvārabāhaṁ nissāya aṭṭhaṁsu. Atha kho subrahmā paccekabrahmā kokālikaṁ bhikkhuṁ ārabbha bhagavato santike imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi: 

2"Appameyyaṁ paminanto,
Kodha vidvā vikappaye;
Appameyyaṁ pamāyinaṁ,
Nivutaṁ taṁ maññe puthujjanan"ti.