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Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Linked Discourses

Vol 1:
Verses
SN1-11
Vol 2:
Causation
SN12-21
Vol 3:
Aggregates
SN22-34
Vol 4:
Sense Bases
SN35-44
Vol 5:
Great Book
SN45-56

6. Brahmasaṁyutta: ith Brahmās

I. The Appeal — SN6.8: About Katamorakatissaka

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 Suddhāvāsa recited this verse about the mendicant Katamorakatissaka 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 a fool, 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 suddhāvāso paccekabrahmā katamodakatissakaṁ bhikkhuṁ ārabbha bhagavato santike imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi: 

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