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Katamodakatissasutta

About Katamorakatissaka Tissaka

Sāvatthinidānaṁ.
At Sāvatthī.
At Sāvatthī…

Tena kho pana samayena bhagavā divāvihāragato hoti paṭisallīno.
Now at that time the Buddha had gone into retreat for the day’s meditation.

Atha kho subrahmā ca paccekabrahmā suddhāvāso ca paccekabrahmā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā paccekaṁ dvārabāhaṁ nissāya aṭṭhaṁsu.
Then the independent divinities Subrahmā and Suddhāvāsa went to the Buddha and stationed themselves one by each door-post.

Atha kho suddhāvāso paccekabrahmā katamodakatissakaṁ bhikkhuṁ ārabbha bhagavato santike imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:
Then Suddhāvāsa recited this verse about the mendicant Katamorakatissaka in the Buddha’s presence:
Then, referring to the bhikkhu Katamorakatissaka, the independent brahmā Suddhāvāsa recited this verse in the presence of the Blessed One:

“Appameyyaṁ paminanto,
“What wise person here would judge
An immeasurable one by taking his measure?

Kodha vidvā vikappaye;
the immeasurable by measuring them?
“What wise man here would seek to define

Appameyyaṁ pamāyinaṁ,
I think anyone who’d do such a thing
He who would measure an immeasurable one

Nivutaṁ taṁ maññe akissavan”ti.
must be a fool, shrouded in darkness.”
Must be, I think, an obstructed moron. ”