ཀན་ཏ་རྒྱ་བ་སན་རངས་ཀྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད notes.23
The Questions of Dīrghanakha the Wandering Mendicant notes.23
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23. Although the Tibetan de skad smas pa does not make it clear whether Dīrghanakha is attributing the following statement to the Buddha or not, the Sanskrit vasadi supports the second person subject “you.” It is evident from the fact that Dīrghanakha does not bow, and addresses the Buddha as “Gautama,” that he is not being respectful and so would not be using an honorific register.