[592] When this was said, Tālapuṭa, the headman of the dancers, wept and shed tears. [The Blessed One said:] "This is precisely what I could not get from you, headman, when I said: 'Enough, headman, let this be; do not ask me that.'"
"Venerable sir, I am not weeping over what the Blessed One has said to me. Rather, venerable sir, for a long time I have been tricked, cheated, and deceived by the dancers of old, the teachers and teachers of teachers, who said: 'A dancer who, in the midst of the stage, in the midst of the festival, makes people laugh and delights them with what is true and false—with the breaking up of the body, after death, he is reborn in the company of the laughing devas (pahāsā devā).'
"Excellent, venerable sir! Excellent, venerable sir! Just as, venerable sir, one might set upright what had been overturned, or uncover what was concealed, or point out the way to one who was lost, or hold up an oil lamp in the darkness so that those with eyes might see forms—even so has the Dhamma been made clear by the Blessed One in many ways. I, venerable sir, go to the Blessed One for refuge, and to the Dhamma, and to the Saṅgha of bhikkhus. May I receive, venerable sir, the going forth (pabbajjā) in the presence of the Blessed One; may I receive the full admission (upasampadā)."
And Tālapuṭa, the headman of the dancers, received the going forth in the presence of the Blessed One; he received the full admission. And not long after his full admission, the Venerable Tālapuṭa, dwelling alone, withdrawn, diligent, ardent, and resolute … And the Venerable Tālapuṭa became one of the arahants.
The second [sutta].
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.