Udāna, Exalted Utterances

2: Mucalindavaggo
Evaṁ me sutaṁ:
Thus I heard:
2-5: Upāsakasuttaṁ (15)
The Discourse about the Lay Follower
ekaṁ samayaṁ Bhagavā Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati,
at one time the Gracious One was dwelling near Sāvatthī,
Jetavane Anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.
in Jeta's Wood, at Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery.
Tena kho pana samayena aññataro Icchānaṅgalako upāsako
Then at that time a certain lay follower from Icchānaṅgala
Sāvatthiṁ anuppatto hoti kenacid-eva karaṇīyena.
had arrived at Sāvatthī with some business or other.
Atha kho so upāsako Sāvatthiyaṁ taṁ karaṇīyaṁ tīretvā,
Then that lay follower, having concluded that business in Sāvatthī,
yena Bhagavā tenupasaṅkami,
went to the Gracious One,
upasaṅkamitvā Bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā, ekamantaṁ nisīdi.
and after going and worshipping the Gracious One, he sat down on one side.
Ekamantaṁ nisinnaṁ kho taṁ upāsakaṁ Bhagavā etad-avoca:
While sat on one side the Gracious One said this to that lay follower:
“Cirassaṁ kho tvaṁ upāsakaṁ imaṁ pariyāyam-akāsi,
“At long last, lay follower, you have made arrangements,
yadidaṁ idhāgamanāyā” ti.
so to say, for coming here.”
“Cirapaṭikāhaṁ bhante Bhagavantaṁ dassanāya upasaṅkamitukāmo,
“For a long time, reverend Sir, I have desired to come to see the Gracious One,
api cāhaṁ kehici kehici 71 kiccakaraṇīyehi vyāvaṭo,
but I have been engaged with some sort of duty and business or another,
evāhaṁ nāsakkhiṁ Bhagavantaṁ dassanāya upasaṅkamitun”-ti. 72
and I have thus been unable to come to see the Gracious One.”
71 -ci = the indefinite particle, together with the repetition of the word, gives distributive sense.
72 Notice that the true infinitive here (upasaṅkamituṁ) is used in conjunction with the infinitive-like
dative (dassanāya).
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