Dighanikaya 1.8

1.8

Idāni taṃ kathetukamyatāya pucchāya pucchitamatthaṃ kathetuṃ ‘‘pāṇātipātaṃ pahāyā’’tiādimāha.

Now, in order to speak on the meaning asked by that question arising from the desire to speak, he said: “Having abandoned the destruction of life,” and so on.