[1539] "Mahānāma, when a lay follower (upāsaka) has for a long time gone for refuge (saraṇa) to the Buddha, gone for refuge to the Dhamma, gone for refuge to the Saṅgha, how could he go to the lower world (vinipāta)? For, Mahānāma, if one speaking rightly were to say of anyone: 'He was a lay follower who for a long time had gone for refuge to the Buddha, gone for refuge to the Dhamma, gone for refuge to the Saṅgha,' it is of Sarakāni the Sakyan that one speaking rightly would say it. Sarakāni the Sakyan, Mahānāma, was a lay follower who for a long time had gone for refuge to the Buddha, gone for refuge to the Dhamma, gone for refuge to the Saṅgha — how could he go to the lower world?"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.