[833] Then a yakkha who had full confidence in the bhikkhunī Sukkā, going from street to street and from square to square in Rājagaha, on that occasion recited these verses:
"What has become of these people in Rājagaha,
that they lie there as though they had drunk mead,¹
they who do not attend upon Sukkā
as she teaches the deathless state (amataṃ padaṃ)?
Yet that [state] — irresistible,
unadulterated, rich in nourishment —
the wise drink of it, methinks,
as wayfarers drink from a rain cloud."
The Second Sukkā Sutta, the Tenth.
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¹ [Footnote in the Siamese edition:] The European edition reads *sukhamasayittha* ("they slept at ease").
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.