an4.22:1.1 “Mendicants, this one time, when I was first awakened, I was staying in Uruvelā at the goatherd’s banyan tree on the bank of the Nerañjarā River.
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an4.22:1.2 Then several old brahmins—elderly and senior, who were advanced in years and had reached the final stage of life—came up to me, and exchanged greetings with me.
an4.22:1.3 When the greetings and polite conversation were over, they sat down to one side, and said to me:
an4.22:1.4 ‘Worthy Gotama, we have heard this:
an4.22:1.5 “The ascetic Gotama does not bow to old brahmins, elderly and senior, who are advanced in years and have reached the final stage of life; nor does he rise in their presence or offer them a seat.”
an4.22:1.6 And this is indeed the case,
an4.22:1.7 for the worthy Gotama does not bow to old brahmins, elderly and senior, who are advanced in years and have reached the final stage of life; nor does he rise in their presence or offer them a seat.
an4.22:1.8 This is not appropriate, worthy Gotama.’