[759] "But if, Puṇṇa, the people of Sunāparanta give you a blow with a clod of earth, what will you think of them then?"
"Venerable sir, if the people of Sunāparanta give me a blow with a clod of earth, I shall think of them thus: 'Gracious indeed are these people of Sunāparanta, truly gracious are these people of Sunāparanta, in that they do not give me a blow with a club.' So it will be for me here, O Blessed One; so it will be for me here, O Sublime One (Sugata)."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.