Dighanikaya 16.136

16.136

Atha kho bhagavā acirapakkantetiādimhi sannipātetvāti dūravihāresu iddhimante pesetvā santikavihāresu sayaṃ gantvā – ‘‘sannipatatha, āyasmanto; bhagavā vo sannipātaṃ icchatī’’ti sannipātetvā. Aparihāniyeti aparihānikare, vuddhihetubhūteti attho. Dhamme desessāmīti candasahassaṃ sūriyasahassaṃ uṭṭhapento viya catukuṭṭake gehe anto teladīpasahassaṃ ujjālento viya pākaṭe katvā kathayissāmīti.

In “Then the Blessed One, not long after [the brahmin Vassakāra] had departed…” and so forth: “having assembled” means having sent those endowed with psychic power to distant monasteries, and having gone in person to near monasteries, assembling them with the words, “Assemble, venerable sirs; the Blessed One desires your assembly.” “Leading to non-decline” means producing non-decline; the meaning is: serving as causes for growth. “I will teach the Dhammas” means: I will speak making them manifest, as though making a thousand moons and a thousand suns rise, or as though kindling a thousand oil lamps inside a four-walled house.