Udayamāṇavakapañhānidadesa

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Cūḷaniddesa · Vol. 30 · Section 437

[437] **"There is our coming with a question" (atthī pañhena āgamaṃ):** we have come needing a question; we have come as questioners of a question; we have come desiring to hear a question — thus too, "there is our coming with a question." Or else: for those needing a question, questioners of a question, desiring to hear a question, there is a coming, an advancing, an approaching — thus too, "there is our coming with a question." Or else: you possess the coming of questions [mastery of questions, pañhāgama]; you too are capable, empowered, fully adequate to question, to speak, to answer (vissajjetuṃ), to point out, to declare together with me — thus too, "there is our coming with a question."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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