[1568] Setting at Sāvatthī. Now on that occasion the householder Anāthapiṇḍika was afflicted, in pain, gravely ill. Then the householder Anāthapiṇḍika addressed a certain man: "Come, good man, go to the Venerable Ānanda; having approached him, pay homage with your head at the Venerable Ānanda's feet in my name, saying: 'Venerable sir, the householder Anāthapiṇḍika is afflicted, in pain, gravely ill; he pays homage with his head at the Venerable Ānanda's feet.' And say this: 'It would be good, venerable sir, if the Venerable Ānanda would come to the residence of the householder Anāthapiṇḍika, out of compassion.'"
"Yes, sir," that man replied to the householder Anāthapiṇḍika, and he went to the Venerable Ānanda; having approached, he paid homage to the Venerable Ānanda and sat down to one side. Sitting to one side, that man said to the Venerable Ānanda: "Venerable sir, the householder Anāthapiṇḍika is afflicted, in pain, gravely ill. He pays homage with his head at the Venerable Ānanda's feet, and he says this: 'It would be good, venerable sir, if the Venerable Ānanda would come to the residence of the householder Anāthapiṇḍika, out of compassion.'"
The Venerable Ānanda consented by silence.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.