[98] Sitting to one side, the carpenter (thapati) Pañcakaṅga said to the Venerable Udāyī: "Venerable Udāyī, how many feelings (vedanā) have been spoken of by the Blessed One?"
"Householder, three feelings have been spoken of by the Blessed One: pleasant feeling, painful feeling, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. These, householder, are the three feelings spoken of by the Blessed One."
"Venerable Udāyī, the Blessed One has not spoken of three feelings; the Blessed One has spoken of two feelings: pleasant feeling and painful feeling. As for that neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, venerable sir, that has been spoken of by the Blessed One as [included] within a peaceful and sublime pleasure."
For a second time the Venerable Udāyī said to the carpenter Pañcakaṅga: "Householder, the Blessed One has not spoken of two feelings; the Blessed One has spoken of three feelings: pleasant feeling, painful feeling, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. These, householder, are the three feelings spoken of by the Blessed One."
For a second time the carpenter Pañcakaṅga said to the Venerable Udāyī: "Venerable Udāyī, the Blessed One has not spoken of three feelings; the Blessed One has spoken of two feelings: pleasant feeling and painful feeling. As for that neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, venerable sir, that has been spoken of by the Blessed One as [included] within a peaceful and sublime pleasure."
For a third time the Venerable Udāyī said to the carpenter Pañcakaṅga: "Householder, the Blessed One has not spoken of two feelings; the Blessed One has spoken of three feelings: pleasant feeling, painful feeling, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. These, householder, are the three feelings spoken of by the Blessed One."
For a third time the carpenter Pañcakaṅga said to the Venerable Udāyī: "Venerable Udāyī, the Blessed One has not spoken of three feelings; the Blessed One has spoken of two feelings: pleasant feeling and painful feeling. As for that neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, venerable sir, that has been spoken of by the Blessed One as [included] within a peaceful and sublime pleasure."
Neither was the Venerable Udāyī able to convince the carpenter Pañcakaṅga, nor was the carpenter Pañcakaṅga able to convince the Venerable Udāyī.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.