Dighanikaya 3.254_2

3.254_2

Cārikaṃ caramānoti addhānagamanaṃ gacchanto. Cārikā ca nāmesā bhagavato duvidhā hoti – turitacārikā ca, aturitacārikā ca. Tattha dūrepi bodhaneyyapuggalaṃ disvā tassa bodhanatthāya sahasā gamanaṃ turitacārikā nāma, sā mahākassapassa paccuggamanādīsu daṭṭhabbā. Bhagavā hi mahākassapattheraṃ paccuggacchanto muhuttena tigāvutaṃ maggaṃ agamāsi. Āḷavakassatthāya tiṃsayojanaṃ, tathā aṅgulimālassa. Pakkusātissa pana pañcacattālīsayojanaṃ. Mahākappinassa vīsayojanasataṃ. Dhaniyassatthāya sattayojanasatāni agamāsi. Dhammasenāpatino saddhivihārikassa vanavāsītissasāmaṇerassa tigāvutādhikaṃ vīsayojanasataṃ.

‘Wandering on tour’ means going on a long journey. And this wandering of the Blessed One is of two kinds: the hurried tour and the unhurried tour. Therein, seeing even far off a person capable of awakening, going swiftly for the sake of their awakening is called the hurried tour; it should be seen in the going out to meet Mahākassapa and others. For the Blessed One, going out to meet Mahākassapa Thera, traversed a road of three gāvutas in a moment. For the sake of Āḷavaka, [he traversed] thirty yojanas, likewise for Aṅgulimāla. But for Pakkusāti, forty-five yojanas. For Mahākappina, one hundred and twenty yojanas. For the sake of Dhaniya, he traveled seven hundred yojanas. For the novice Vanavāsītissa, co-resident of the Marshal of the Dhamma, [he traversed] one hundred and twenty yojanas and three gāvutas.