Dighanikaya 3.260

3.260

Abhiññātakolaññoti pākaṭakulajo. Tadā kira jambudīpe ambaṭṭhakulaṃ nāma pākaṭakulamahosi. Abhiññātassāti rūpajātimantakulāpadesehi pākaṭassa. Agarūti abhāriko. Yo hi ambaṭṭhaṃ ñāpetuṃ na sakkuṇeyya, tassa tena saddhiṃ kathāsallāpo garu bhaveyya. Bhagavato pana tādisānaṃ māṇavānaṃ satenāpi sahassenāpi pañhaṃ puṭṭhassa vissajjane dandhāyitattaṃ natthīti maññamānā – ‘‘agaru kho panā’’ti cintayiṃsu. Vihāroti gandhakuṭiṃ sandhāya āhaṃsu.

‘From a well-known family’ (abhiññātakolañño) means born into a famous family. For at that time in Jambudīpa, the Ambaṭṭha clan was a famous clan. ‘Of one well-known’ (abhiññātassa) means of one famous through beauty, birth, mantras, and family reputation. ‘Not burdensome’ (agarū) means not troublesome. For whoever is not able to instruct Ambaṭṭha, conversation with him would be burdensome. But thinking: ‘When the Blessed One is questioned, even by a hundred or a thousand such youths, there is no hesitation in answering,’ they thought: ‘It is indeed not burdensome.’ ‘Dwelling’ (vihāro): they said this with reference to the perfumed cottage.