[380] "When this was said, venerable sir, I said to the Venerable Mahāmoggallāna: 'Friend Moggallāna, the Venerable Mahākassapa has answered according to his own inspiration. Now we ask the Venerable Mahāmoggallāna in that matter: … Friend Moggallāna, by what kind of bhikkhu would the Gosiṅga sāl-wood be graced?' When this was said, venerable sir, the Venerable Mahāmoggallāna said this to me: 'Here, friend Sāriputta, two bhikkhus engage in talk on the higher Dhamma (abhidhammakathā); they question each other, and being questioned, each answers the other's questions without faltering, and their talk on the Dhamma flows onward. By such a bhikkhu, friend Sāriputta, would the Gosiṅga sāl-wood be graced.'"
"Good, good, Sāriputta! Answering rightly, Moggallāna would answer just so; for Moggallāna, Sāriputta, is a speaker on the Dhamma."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.