Dighanikaya 13.524

13.524

Maggāmagge, bho gotamāti magge bho gotama amagge ca, ujumagge ca anujumagge cāti attho. Esa kira ekabrāhmaṇassāpi maggaṃ ‘‘na maggo’’ti na vadati. Yathā pana attano ācariyassa maggo ujumaggo, na evaṃ aññesaṃ anujānāti, tasmā tamevatthaṃ dīpento ‘‘kiñcāpi bho gotamā’’tiādimāha.

“About the path and the non-path, Master Gotama”: about the path and the non-path, Master Gotama, about the straight path and the non-straight path—this is the meaning. He, indeed, does not say of the path of any single brahmin: “It is not a path.” But he does not concede in that way that the path of another is a straight path just as that of his own teacher is; therefore, explaining that very meaning, he said: “Even though, Master Gotama,” and so on.