Dighanikaya 16.151

16.151

Bahudeva rattiṃ dhammiyā kathāyāti aññāya pāḷimuttakāya dhammikathāya ceva āvasathānumodanāya ca ākāsagaṅgaṃ otārento viya yojanappamāṇaṃ mahāmadhuṃ pīḷetvā madhupānaṃ pāyento viya bahudeva rattiṃ sandassetvā sampahaṃsetvā uyyojesi. Abhikkantāti atikkantā khīṇā khayavayaṃ upetā. Suññāgāranti pāṭiyekkaṃ suññāgāraṃ nāma natthi, tattheva pana ekapasse sāṇipākārena parikkhipitvā – ‘‘idha satthā vissamissatī’’ti mañcakaṃ paññapesuṃ. Bhagavā – ‘‘catūhipi iriyāpathehi paribhuttaṃ etesaṃ mahapphalaṃ bhavissatī’’ti tattha sīhaseyyaṃ kappesi. Taṃ sandhāya vuttaṃ – ‘‘suññāgāraṃ pāvisī’’ti.

‘For much of the night with talk on the Dhamma’: with other talk on the Dhamma outside the canonical text, and with the thanksgiving for the rest-house, as if bringing down the heavenly Gaṅgā, as if pressing out a great honeycomb measuring a yojana and giving honey-drink to drink, having instructed and gladdened [them] for much of the night, he dismissed them. ‘Far advanced’ means gone by, finished, having reached depletion and passing away. ‘An empty house’: there was no separate empty house as such; rather, right there on one side, having enclosed it with a curtain wall, they prepared a couch, [thinking,] ‘Here the Teacher will rest.’ The Blessed One, [thinking,] ‘Being used in all four postures, this will be of great fruit for them,’ took the lion’s rest there. With reference to that, it was said: ‘he entered an empty house.’