[819] "Friends today, without a motive, are hard to find" (nikkāraṇā dullabhā ajja mittā): there are two friends — the house-dwelling friend (āgārikamitta)⁴ and the homeless friend (anāgārikamitta). … This is the house-dwelling friend. … This is the homeless friend. "Friends today, without a motive, are hard to find": these two friends — being without a motive, [1] without a cause, without a condition — are hard to find. [2] Hence, "friends today, without a motive, are hard to find."
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¹ M(yanmar edition): this reading is absent.
² M: "vīharatīti."
³ M: "nisevanti saṃsevanti."
⁴ M: "agārikamitto"; so too below.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.