Verses on Dhamma 6.5.p20

6.5.p20

Evaṃ imesu catūsu pañhesu vissajjikesu sāmaṇero saha paṭisambhidāhi arahattaṃ patto. Satthāpi theraṃ āha – ‘‘gaccha, sāriputta, tava sāmaṇerassa bhattaṃ dehī’’ti. Thero gantvā dvāraṃ ākoṭesi. Sāmaṇero nikkhamitvā therassa hatthato pattaṃ gahetvā ekamantaṃ ṭhapetvā tālavaṇṭena theraṃ bīji. Atha naṃ thero āha – ‘‘sāmaṇera, bhattakiccaṃ karohī’’ti. ‘‘Tumhe pana, bhante’’ti. ‘‘Kataṃ mayā bhattakiccaṃ, tvaṃ karohī’’ti. Sattavassikadārako pabbajitvā aṭṭhame divase taṃ khaṇaṃ vikasitapadumuppalasadiso arahattaṃ patto, paccavekkhitaṭṭhānaṃ pana paccavekkhanto nisīditvā bhattakiccamakāsi. Tena pattaṃ dhovitvā paṭisāmitakāle candadevaputto candamaṇḍalaṃ vissajjesi, sūriyadevaputto sūriyamaṇḍalaṃ. Cattāro mahārājāno catuddisaṃ ārakkhaṃ vissajjesuṃ, sakko devarājā āviñchanake ārakkhaṃ vissajjesi. Sūriyo majjhaṭṭhānato galitvā gato.

While these four questions were being answered, the novice attained Arahatship, together with the Supernatural Faculties. Then the Teacher said to the Elder, “Go, Sāriputta, give the food to your novice." The Elder went and knocked at the door. The novice came out, took the bowl from the Elder's hands, set it aside, and began to fan the Elder with a palm-leaf fan. The Elder said to him, "Novice, eat your breakfast." "But you, Reverend Sir?" "I have eaten my breakfast; you eat yours." Thus did a child seven years old, already a monk, on the eighth day, like a freshly blossomed water-lily, reflecting upon the subjects of self-examination, sit down and eat his breakfast.

When he had washed his bowl and put it away, the moon-deity released the moon and the sun-deity the sun; the Four Great Kings abandoned their watch over the four quarters; Sakka the king of the gods gave up his post at the rope of the door; and the sun vanished from mid-heaven and disappeared.