[899] **There is a coming with a question** (atthi pañhena āgamaṃ): I have come as one in need of a question; I have come wishing to ask a question; I have come wishing to hear a question — thus too "there is a coming with a question." Or alternatively: there may be the coming, the advancing, the approaching, the sitting in attendance, of those in need of a question, of those who ask a question, of those wishing to hear a question — thus too "there is a coming with a question." Or alternatively: you possess the tradition (āgama) of questions; you are one fully capable of explaining and answering what is asked by me; let this burden be yours — thus too "there is a coming with a question." Therefore the Elder Sāriputta said:
To that Buddha — the unattached, the one who is Such (tādī),
the undeceptive one, who has come as the teacher of a group —
on behalf of the many who are bound here,
there is a coming with a question.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.