Mahagovindasutta 28.1-8

28.1

Ime kho, bhante, sakko devānamindo brahmuno sanaṅkumārassa bhagavato aṭṭha yathābhucce vaṇṇe payirudāhāsi.

28.2

Tena sudaṃ, bhante, brahmā sanaṅkumāro attamano hoti pamudito pītisomanassajāto bhagavato aṭṭha yathābhucce vaṇṇe sutvā.

Hearing them, the divinity Sanaṅkumāra was uplifted and overjoyed, full of rapture and happiness.

28.3

Atha, bhante, brahmā sanaṅkumāro oḷārikaṃ attabhāvaṃ abhinimminitvā kumāravaṇṇī hutvā pañcasikho devānaṃ tāvatiṃsānaṃ pāturahosi.

Then the divinity Sanaṅkumāra manifested in a solid life-form, taking on the appearance of the youth Pañcasikha, and appeared to the gods of the thirty-three.

28.4

So vehāsaṃ abbhuggantvā ākāse antalikkhe pallaṅkena nisīdi.

Rising into the air, he sat cross-legged in the sky,

28.5

Seyyathāpi, bhante, balavā puriso supaccatthate vā pallaṅke same vā bhūmibhāge pallaṅkena nisīdeyya;

like a strong man might sit cross-legged on a well-appointed couch or on level ground.

28.6

evameva kho, bhante, brahmā sanaṅkumāro vehāsaṃ abbhuggantvā ākāse antalikkhe pallaṅkena nisīditvā deve tāvatiṃse āmantesi:

There he addressed the gods of the thirty-three:

28.8

‘Taṃ kiṃ maññanti, bhonto devā tāvatiṃsā, yāva dīgharattaṃ mahāpaññova so bhagavā ahosi.

‘What do the gods of the thirty-three think about the extent of the Buddha’s great wisdom?