The Questions of Dīrghanakha the Wandering Mendicant 4-5

in the manner of the arhats.”

In the same way, he repeated this vow a second and third time and said, “I will correctly maintain the vows of the discipline of the poṣadha. This will be the ornament of my mind, the instrument of my mind, and the accumulation of awakening. May I remain in the omniscient wisdom of the ultimate truth and the unsurpassable bliss of nirvāṇa.”⁴²

The Blessed One said, “Great brahmin, you should do just that! Excellent! Excellent!”

When the Blessed One had thus spoken, those monks and the world with its gods, humans, demigods, and gandharvas rejoiced and praised the words of the Blessed One.

The Sūtra Section, Volume Aṃ.