[320] "Even though the worthy Kassapa says this, still I am not able to relinquish this harmful view (pāpaka diṭṭhigata). King Pasenadi of Kosala knows me, and so do foreign kings, thus: 'The chieftain Pāyāsi holds this doctrine, holds this view: "There is no world beyond; there are no spontaneously reborn beings; there is no fruit or result of deeds well done or ill done."' If, worthy Kassapa, I relinquish this harmful view, there will be those who say of me: 'How foolish is the chieftain Pāyāsi, how incompetent — a grasper of what is wrongly grasped!' I shall carry it on out of anger; I shall carry it on out of denigration; I shall carry it on out of spite."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.