Dighanikaya 25.49

25.49

Evaṃ me sutanti udumbarikasuttaṃ. Tatrāyamapubbapadavaṇṇanā – paribbājakoti channaparibbājako. Udumbarikāya paribbājakārāmeti udumbarikāya deviyā santake paribbājakārāme. Sandhānoti tassa nāmaṃ. Ayaṃ pana mahānubhāvo parivāretvā vicarantānaṃ pañcannaṃ upāsakasatānaṃ aggapuriso anāgāmī bhagavatā mahāparisamajjhe evaṃ saṃvaṇṇito –

'Thus have I heard' is the Udumbarikasutta. Here, this is the commentary on unfamiliar terms: 'wanderer' means a cloaked wanderer. 'In the wanderers' park of Udumbarikā' means in the wanderers' park belonging to Queen Udumbarikā. Sandhāna was his name. Now this man of great power, the foremost of five hundred lay followers who walked around escorting him, was a non-returner who was praised by the Blessed One in the midst of a great assembly thus: