[12] "In the same way, friend Pāṭikaputta, you, living on the leavings of the Sugatas, eating what is left over by the Sugatas, imagine that the Tathāgatas, the Arahants, the Fully Awakened Buddhas may be assailed. But who are wretched Pāṭikaputtas, and what is the assailing of the Tathāgatas, the Arahants, the Fully Awakened Buddhas?"
When, Bhaggava, Jāliya, the pupil of the wooden-bowl ascetic, was unable even with this simile to make the naked ascetic Pāṭikaputta move from that seat, he returned to that assembly and announced: "The naked ascetic Pāṭikaputta is defeated, sirs. Saying 'I am coming, friend, I am coming,' he only wriggles about right there and cannot even rise from his seat."
When this was said, Bhaggava, I said to that assembly: "Friends, the naked ascetic Pāṭikaputta is incapable of coming face to face with me without abandoning that statement, without abandoning that mind (citta), and without relinquishing that view. Even if he should think, 'Without abandoning that statement, without abandoning that mind, and without relinquishing that view, I could go face to face with the ascetic Gotama,' his head would split apart. Even if the worthy Licchavis should think, 'Let us bind the naked ascetic Pāṭikaputta with straps and drag him with yoked oxen,' either those straps would break, or Pāṭikaputta would. The naked ascetic Pāṭikaputta is incapable, without abandoning that statement … of coming face to face with me. Even if he should think, 'Without abandoning that statement … I could go face to face with the ascetic Gotama,' his head would split apart."
Then, Bhaggava, I instructed, roused, inspired, and gladdened that assembly with a talk on the Dhamma. Having instructed, roused, inspired, and gladdened that assembly with a talk on the Dhamma, having wrought release from the great bondage, having lifted eighty-four thousand beings out of the great morass, I attained the fire element (tejodhātu), rose into the air to the height of seven palm trees, created another fire seven palm trees high, blazing and smoking, and alighted again at the hall with the peaked roof in the Great Wood.
Then, Bhaggava, Sunakkhatta the Licchavi came to me; having approached, he paid homage to me and sat down to one side. As he sat to one side, Bhaggava, I said to Sunakkhatta the Licchavi: "What do you think, Sunakkhatta? Did the result turn out just as I declared to you concerning the naked ascetic Pāṭikaputta, and not otherwise?"
"Venerable sir, just as the Blessed One declared to me concerning the naked ascetic Pāṭikaputta, so did the result turn out, not otherwise."
"What do you think, Sunakkhatta? That being so, has a superhuman demonstration of psychic power been performed, or has it not been performed?"
"Certainly, venerable sir, that being so, a superhuman demonstration of psychic power has been performed, not left unperformed."
"Even so, foolish man, when I perform a superhuman demonstration of psychic power, you say to me: 'But, venerable sir, the Blessed One performs no superhuman demonstration of psychic power for me.' See, foolish man, how far you have transgressed in this."
Even when spoken to by me in this way, Bhaggava, Sunakkhatta the Licchavi departed from this Dhamma and Discipline, like one bound for the plane of misery, bound for hell.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.