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Udàna 7: Cullavaggo
The Chapter (including) the Short (Discourses)
2: The Second Discourse about Bhaddiya
Thus I heard:
at one time the Gracious One was dwelling near Sàvatthã, in Jeta's Wood, at Anàthapiõóika's monastery.
Then at that time venerable Sàriputta, thinking that venerable Bhaddiya the dwarf was still a trainee, was instructing, rousing, enthusing, and cheering him in abundant and countless ways with a Dhamma talk.
The Gracious One saw venerable Sàriputta, (who was) thinking that venerable Bhaddiya the dwarf was still a trainee, instructing, rousing, enthusing, and cheering him in abundant and countless ways with a Dhamma talk.
Then the Gracious One, having understood the significance of it, on that occasion uttered this exalted utterance:
ßHe has cut off the cycle, gone to the desireless,
Dried up, the stream no longer flows,
Cut off, the cycle no longer rolls on,
Just this is the end of suffering.û