Dighanikaya 33.300_2

33.300_2

Saṅghāṭiṃ paññāpetvāti sandhāgārassa kira ekapasse te rājāno kappiyamañcakaṃ paññapesuṃ ‘‘appeva nāma satthā nipajjeyyā’’ti. Satthāpi catūhi iriyāpathehi paribhuttaṃ imesaṃ mahapphalaṃ bhavissatīti tattha saṅghāṭiṃ paññāpetvā nipajji.

‘Having folded his outer robe’ means that those kings, it is said, prepared a suitable couch at one side of the assembly hall, thinking: ‘Perhaps the Teacher might lie down.’ The Teacher too, thinking: ‘What has been used by me in the four postures will bring them great fruit,’ folded his outer robe there and lay down.