Dighanikaya 2.250

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Rājā tattha tattha sādhukāraṃ pavattento ādimajjhapariyosānaṃ sakkaccaṃ sutvā ‘‘ciraṃ vatamhi ime pañhe puthū samaṇabrāhmaṇe pucchanto, thuse koṭṭento viya kiñci sāraṃ nālatthaṃ, aho vata bhagavato guṇasampadā, yo me dīpasahassaṃ jālento viya mahantaṃ ālokaṃ katvā ime pañhe vissajjesi. Suciraṃ vatamhi dasabalassa guṇānubhāvaṃ ajānanto vañcito’’ti cintetvā buddhaguṇānussaraṇasambhūtāya pañcavidhāya pītiyā phuṭasarīro attano pasādaṃ āvikaronto upāsakattaṃ paṭivedesi. Taṃ dassetuṃ ‘‘evaṃ vutte rājā’’tiādi āraddhaṃ.

The king, uttering praise at this point and that, listened respectfully from beginning to middle to end, and thought: "For a long time indeed, asking these questions to many recluses and brahmins, like one beating chaff, I obtained no substance. Ah, indeed, the excellence of the Blessed One's qualities! He who, as if lighting a thousand lamps, made a great light and resolved these questions for me. For a very long time indeed I was deceived, not knowing the majestic power of the virtues of the One of Ten Powers!" His body suffused with the five kinds of joy born of recollecting the virtues of the Buddha, making his devotion manifest, he declared his status as a lay follower. To show that, the text beginning with "When this was said, the king..." was begun.