The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Third Chapter for Recitation
(period) after attaining Awakening. 98 Then, Ānanda, the Wicked Māra
approached me, and after approaching he stood on one side. While
standing to one side, Ānanda, the Wicked Māra said this to me:
“May the Gracious One attain Final Emancipation now, reverend Sir,
may the Fortunate One attain Final Emancipation, now is the time,
reverend Sir, for the Gracious One's Final Emancipation.”
After this was said, Ānanda, I said this to the Wicked Māra: “I will not
attain Final Emancipation, Wicked One, for as long as my monks are
not (true) disciples, accomplished, disciplined, confident, learned,
bearers of the Teaching, practising in conformity with the Teaching,
correct in their practice, living in conformity with the Teaching, and
having learned it from their own teacher, will declare, reveal, make
known, set forth, open up, analyse, make plain - after giving a good
rebuke with reason to the doctrines of others that have arisen - and
teach the miraculous Teaching.
I will not attain Final Emancipation, Wicked One, for as long as my
nuns are not (true) disciples, accomplished, disciplined, confident,
learned, bearers of the Teaching, practising in conformity with the
Teaching, correct in their practice, living in conformity with the
Teaching, and having learned it from their own teacher, will declare,
98 The Commentary explains that this was in the eighth week after attaining
the Final Awakening in the vicinity of the Bodhi Tree (Sambodhipattiyā
aṭṭhame sattāhe Bodhimaṇḍe).
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