Khaggavisāṇasuttaniddesa

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Cūḷaniddesa · Vol. 30 · Section 821

[821] **"One should wander alone like a rhinoceros horn"** — "Alone": … "Should wander": the eight modes of conduct (cariyā) … one should wander alone like a rhinoceros horn. Therefore that Paccekasambuddha said: [Apparatus, Siam Raṭṭha ed.: ¹ M.: *nikkaraṇā*. ² M.: *dulladdhā suduḷladdhā ti*. ³ M.: *paṭisevanti*. ⁴ M.: *paripucchanti*. ⁵ M.: this reading is absent.] > They associate with and resort to one for a motive; > friends without a motive are hard to find today. > Human beings are impure, their wisdom bent on their own advantage; > one should wander alone like a rhinoceros horn. The Exposition of the Khaggavisāṇasutta is concluded.¹ > Ajita, Tissametteyya, Puṇṇaka, and then Mettagū, > Dhotaka and Upasīva, Nanda and then Hemaka, > the pair Todeyya and Kappa, and Jatukaṇṇī the wise, > Bhadrāvudha and Udaya, and Posāla the brahmin too, > Mogharājā the intelligent, and Piṅgiya the great seer — > of these sixteen² brahmins of the Pārāyana there is the Exposition > of the teaching; just so many indeed there are; > and the Expositions of the Khaggavisāṇasutta stand right there³ as well. > The Expositions should be known as twofold, complete and well written.⁴ The Suttaniddesa is completed. [Apparatus, Siam Raṭṭha ed.: ¹ M.: *ekūnavīsatimo* ("the nineteenth"). ² M.: *soḷasānaṃ*. ³ M.: *tatheva*. ⁴ M.: *sulakkhitā ti*.]

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.