Dighanikaya 29.189

29.189

Evaṃ attano asamataṃ anuttarataṃ sabbaññutaṃ dhammarājabhāvaṃ kathetvā idāni ‘‘puthusamaṇabrāhmaṇānaṃ laddhīsu mayā aññātaṃ adiṭṭhaṃ nāma natthi, sabbaṃ mama ñāṇassa antoyeva parivattatī’’ti sīhanādaṃ nadanto ṭhānaṃ kho panetaṃ, cunda, vijjatītiādimāha. Tattha tathāgatoti satto. Na hetaṃ, āvuso, atthasaṃhitanti idhalokaparalokaatthasaṃhitaṃ na hoti. Na ca dhammasaṃhitanti navalokuttaradhammanissitaṃ na hoti. Na ādibrahmacariyakanti sikkhattayasaṅgahitassa sakalasāsanabrahmacariyassa ādibhūtaṃ na hoti.

Having thus spoken of his own peerlessness, supremacy, omniscience, and state of being the Dhamma King, now roaring his lion's roar: 'There is nothing unknown or unseen by me among the tenets of the many ascetics and brahmins; everything revolves entirely within my knowledge,' he said: 'There is the possibility, Cunda,' and so forth. In that context, 'a Tathāgata' means a being. 'It is not connected with benefit, friend' means it is not connected with the benefit of this world or the next world. 'And not connected with the Dhamma' means it is not connected with the nine supramundane Dhammas. 'Not foundational to the spiritual life' means it is not the beginning of the entire spiritual life of the Dispensation, which is comprised of the three trainings.