Dighanikaya 0.28

0.28

‘‘Atha kho āyasmā mahākassapo bhikkhū āmantesi – ‘ekamidāhaṃ, āvuso, samayaṃ pāvāya kusināraṃ addhānamaggappaṭipanno mahatā bhikkhusaṅghena saddhiṃ pañcamattehi bhikkhusatehī’’ti (cūḷava. 437) sabbaṃ subhaddakaṇḍaṃ vitthārato veditabbaṃ. Atthaṃ panassa mahāparinibbānāvasāne āgataṭṭhāneyeva kathayissāma.

"Then Venerable Mahākassapa addressed the bhikkhus: 'Once, friends, as I was traveling along the highway from Pāvā to Kusinārā with a large Saṅgha of bhikkhus, about five hundred bhikkhus...'"—the entire section on Subhadda is to be understood in detail. But we will explain its meaning right in the place where it occurs at the end of the Mahāparinibbāna [Sutta].