[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Āgama sūtras of the mainstream schools](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama) › [Other mainstream sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other) › [Dīrghanakhaparivrājakaparipṛcchā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha) › [ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ་བ་སེན་རིངས་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo) › [The Questions of Dirghanakha the Wandering Mendicant](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000) › notes.23 # ཀན་ཏ་རྒྱ་བ་སན་རངས་ཀྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད notes.23 The Questions of Dīrghanakha the Wandering Mendicant notes.23 - **Language:** English ### [notes.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.23) 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. - [Previous: notes.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.22) - [Next: notes.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.24) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.23) · Pramāṇa