[280] Now at that time the wanderer Susima was residing at Rājagaha together with a large assembly of wanderers. Then the assembly of the wanderer Susima said this to the wanderer Susima: "Come, friend Susima, live the holy life under the ascetic Gotama. Having mastered the Dhamma, you may teach it to us; having mastered that Dhamma, we shall speak it to the householders. In this way we too shall be honored, respected, esteemed, venerated, and revered, and shall be gainers of robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicinal requisites for the sick."
"So be it, friends," the wanderer Susima replied to his own assembly, and he approached the Venerable Ānanda. Having approached, he exchanged greetings with the Venerable Ānanda, and when they had concluded that courteous and cordial talk, he sat down to one side. Sitting to one side, the wanderer Susima said this to the Venerable Ānanda: "Friend Ānanda, I wish to live the holy life in this Dhamma and Discipline."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.