Dhammapada 26.13.p2

26.13.p2

So kira ‘‘samaṇo gotamo attano sāvake brāhmaṇāti vadati ahañcamhi brāhmaṇayoniyaṃ nibbatto, mampi nu kho evaṃ vattuṃ vaṭṭatī’’ti satthāraṃ upasaṅkamitvā tamatthaṃ pucchi. Atha naṃ satthā ‘‘nāhaṃ, brāhmaṇa, brāhmaṇayoniyaṃ nibbattamattenevaṃ vadāmi, yo pana akiñcano agahaṇo, tamahaṃ brāhmaṇaṃ vadāmī’’ti vatvā imaṃ gāthamāha –

The story goes that this Brahman one day said to himself, "The monk Gotama calls his own disciples 'Brahmans.' Now I was reborn in the womb of a Brahman mother; therefore he ought to apply this title to me too." So he approached the Teacher and asked him about the matter. Said the Teacher to the Brahman, "I do not call a man a Brahman merely because he received a new existence in the womb of a Brahman mother. But he that is without worldly possessions, he that grasps not after the things of this world, him alone I call a Brahman." So saying, he pronounced the following Stanza,