MN 95

Caṅkīsutta

With Caṅkī

Majjhima Nikāya · Terj. Bhikkhu Sujato

mn95:8.2 It’s not appropriate for you to go to see the ascetic Gotama;

mn95:8.3 it’s appropriate that he comes to see you.

mn95:8.4 You are well born on both your mother’s and father’s side, stemming from a clean vessel, with irrefutable and impeccable genealogy back to the seventh paternal generation.

mn95:8.5 For this reason it’s not appropriate for you to go to see the ascetic Gotama;

mn95:8.6 it’s appropriate that he comes to see you.

mn95:8.7 You’re rich, affluent, and wealthy. …

mn95:8.8 You recite and remember the hymns, and have mastered the three Vedas, together with their vocabularies and ritual performance, their phonology and word classification, and the testaments as fifth. You know them word-by-word, and their grammar. You are well versed in cosmology and the marks of a great man. …

mn95:8.9 You are attractive, good-looking, lovely, of surpassing beauty. You have divine looks and lustre, remarkable to behold. …

mn95:8.10 You are ethical, mature in ethical conduct. …

mn95:8.11 You’re a good speaker who enunciates well, with a polished, clear, and articulate voice that expresses the meaning. …

mn95:8.12 You’re the tutor of tutors for many, and teach three hundred young students to recite the hymns. …

mn95:8.13 You’re honored, respected, revered, venerated, and esteemed by King Pasenadi of Kosala

mn95:8.14 and the brahmin Pokkharasāti. …

mn95:8.15 You live in Opāsāda, a crown property given by King Pasenadi of Kosala, teeming with living creatures, full of hay, wood, water, and grain, a royal park endowed to a brahmin.

mn95:8.16 For all these reasons it’s not appropriate for you to go to see the ascetic Gotama;

mn95:8.17 it’s appropriate that he comes to see you.”

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