[634] When this was said, the brahmin Akkosaka Bhāradvāja said to the Blessed One: "Magnificent, Master Gotama! Magnificent, Master Gotama! …
[Apparatus note ¹: Po.: at this point the words "ekato bhuñjati katassa paṭikāraṃ karoti" — "he eats together (with him); he makes requital for what was done" — are found.]
I go to Master Gotama for refuge (saraṇa), and to the Dhamma, and to the Saṅgha of bhikkhus (bhikkhu). May I receive the going forth (pabbajjā) in Master Gotama's presence; may I receive the higher ordination (upasampadā)."
And the brahmin Akkosaka Bhāradvāja received the going forth in the Blessed One's presence; he received the higher ordination. Not long after his higher ordination, the Venerable Akkosaka Bhāradvāja — dwelling alone, withdrawn, diligent (appamatta), ardent (ātāpī), and resolute — in no long time realized for himself with direct knowledge (abhiññā), in this very life, that unsurpassed culmination of the holy life (brahmacariya) for the sake of which clansmen rightly go forth from the household life into homelessness, and having entered upon it, he dwelt in it. He knew directly: "Birth (jāti) is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done; there is no more for this state of being." And the Venerable Bhāradvāja became one of the arahants.
The Asurindaka Sutta, the third.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.