Dighanikaya 3.291

3.291

Aho vatāti garahavacanametaṃ. Reti idaṃ hīḷanavasena āmantanaṃ. Paṇḍitakāti tameva jigucchanto āha. Sesapadadvayepi eseva nayo. Evarūpena kira bho puriso atthacarakenāti idaṃ yādiso tvaṃ, edise atthacarake hitakārake sati puriso nirayaṃyeva gaccheyya, na aññatrāti imamatthaṃ sandhāya vadati. Āsajja āsajjāti ghaṭṭetvā ghaṭṭetvā. Amhepi evaṃ upaneyya upaneyyāti brāhmaṇo kho pana ambaṭṭha pokkharasātītiādīni vatvā evaṃ upanetvā upanetvā paṭicchannaṃ kāraṇaṃ āvikaritvā suṭṭhu dāsādibhāvaṃ āropetvā avaca, tayā amhe akkosāpitāti adhippāyo. Padasāyeva pavattesīti pādena paharitvā bhūmiyaṃ pātesi. Yañca so pubbe ācariyena saddhiṃ rathaṃ āruhitvā sārathi hutvā agamāsi, tampissa ṭhānaṃ acchinditvā rathassa purato padasā yevassa gamanaṃ akāsi.

"Alas!" is an expression of reproach. "Hey" is an address made in contempt. "Little wiseacre": he said this loathing him. In the remaining pair of words, this same method applies. "Indeed, sir, through such a promoter of welfare": he says this referring to the meaning: "When someone like you is a promoter of welfare, a benefactor, a person would go only to hell and nowhere else." "Assailing again and again" means striking again and again. "Would bring us down, bring us down like this": the meaning is that having spoken the words beginning with "The brāhmaṇa Pokkharasāti, Ambaṭṭha...", having brought us down repeatedly in this way and made clear the hidden matter, thoroughly imputing to us the status of slaves and the like, [the Blessed One] spoke; and by you we were caused to be insulted. "Rolled him over with his foot": striking him with his foot, he threw him down onto the ground. And whereas previously he had mounted the chariot together with his teacher and gone along acting as charioteer, taking away that position of his, he made him go on foot in front of the chariot.