Dighanikaya 24.2

24.2

Etadavocāti bhagavantaṃ disvā mānathaddhataṃ akatvā satthāraṃ paccuggantvā etaṃ etu kho, bhantetiādikaṃ vacanaṃ avoca. Imaṃ pariyāyanti imaṃ vāraṃ, ajja imaṃ āgamanavāranti attho. Kiṃ pana bhagavā pubbepi tattha gatapubboti? Na gatapubbo, lokasamudācāravasena pana evamāha. Lokiyā hi cirassaṃ āgatampi anāgatapubbampi manāpajātikaṃ āgataṃ disvā ‘‘kuto bhavaṃ āgato, cirassaṃ bhavaṃ āgato, kathaṃ te idhāgamanamaggo ñāto, kiṃ maggamūḷhosī’’tiādīni vadanti. Tasmā ayampi lokasamudācāravasena evamāhāti veditabbo. Idamāsananti attano nisinnāsanaṃ papphoṭetvā sampādetvā dadamāno evamāha. Sunakkhatto licchaviputtoti sunakkhatto nāma licchavirājaputto. So kira tassa gihisahāyo hoti, kālena kālaṃ tassa santikaṃ gacchati. Paccakkhātoti ‘‘paccakkhāmi dānāhaṃ, bhante, bhagavantaṃ na dānāhaṃ, bhante, bhagavantaṃ uddissa viharissāmī’’ti evaṃ paṭiakkhāto nissaṭṭho pariccatto.

“Said this”: seeing the Blessed One, without showing the rigidity of conceit, he went out to meet the Teacher and spoke these words: “May he come indeed, venerable sir,” and so forth. “This turn”: this occasion; the meaning is, this occasion of coming today. But had the Blessed One gone there in the past? He had not gone in the past; rather, he spoke thus by way of worldly convention. For worldly people, seeing one who is pleasing in nature who has come after a long time or who has never come before, say: “From where has the venerable one come? Has the venerable one come after a long time? How did you know the road coming here? Did you lose your way?”, and so forth. Therefore, it should be understood that this one also spoke thus by way of worldly convention. “This seat”: shaking out and preparing his own seat that he was sitting on, while offering it he said this. “Sunakkhatta the Licchavi prince”: the Licchavi royal prince named Sunakkhatta. He, it is said, was his lay companion; from time to time he went into his presence. “Renounced”: “I now renounce, venerable sir, the Blessed One; I will no longer dwell, venerable sir, dedicated to the Blessed One”—in this way he renounced, gave up, discarded.