Dighanikaya 3.259

3.259

Sopi tāya ācariyakathāya lakkhaṇesu vigatasammoho ekobhāsajāte viya buddhamante sampassamāno evaṃ bhoti āha. Tassattho – ‘yathā, bho, tvaṃ vadasi, evaṃ karissāmī’ti. Vaḷavārathamāruyhāti vaḷavāyuttaṃ rathaṃ abhirūhitvā. Brāhmaṇo kira yena rathena sayaṃ vicarati, tameva rathaṃ datvā māṇavaṃ pesesi. Māṇavāpi pokkharasātisseva antevāsikā. So kira tesaṃ – ‘‘ambaṭṭhena saddhiṃ gacchathā’’ti saññaṃ adāsi.

He too, through that talk of his teacher, having his confusion dispelled regarding the marks, seeing the Buddha-mantras as if in a single radiance, said: ‘Yes, sir’ (evaṃ bho). The meaning is: ‘As you say, sir, so I will do.’ ‘Having mounted a mare-drawn chariot’ (vaḷavārathamāruyha) means having mounted a chariot harnessed to mares. It is said that the brahmin sent the youth having given him the very chariot in which he himself travelled. The young men were also pupils of Pokkharasāti himself. It is said that he gave them the signal: ‘Go with Ambaṭṭha.’