[417] **"Having heard [the word] of the nāga, they will depart from here"** — "of the nāga": [the Blessed One is] a nāga. The Blessed One does no evil (āguṃ na karoti), therefore he is a nāga. He does not go, therefore he is a nāga. He does not come, therefore he is a nāga. … Thus the Blessed One does not come, therefore he is a nāga.
"Having heard [the word] of the nāga, they will depart from here": having heard, having listened to, having learned, having borne in mind, and having noted your word, your way of speech, your teaching, and its sequence (anusandhi), they will depart from here, they will go away, they will go to the quarters and the intermediate quarters. Hence: "Having heard [the word] of the nāga, they will depart from here." Therefore that brahmin said:
"The abandoner of the abode (oka), the cutter of craving (taṇhā), the imperturbable one (thus said the venerable Bhadrāvudha),
the abandoner of delight, the crosser of the flood, the liberated one,
the abandoner of mental construction (kappa) — I earnestly entreat the one of excellent wisdom;
having heard [the word] of the nāga, they will depart from here."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.