[262] "Kassapa, this indeed is a possibility (ṭhānaṃ): that wise persons (viññū), questioning, pressing, and cross-examining, might speak thus: 'Those qualities (dhammā) of these venerable ones which are unwholesome (akusala) and reckoned as unwholesome, blameworthy and reckoned as blameworthy, not to be cultivated and reckoned as not to be cultivated, not worthy of the noble ones and reckoned as not worthy of the noble ones, dark and reckoned as dark—it is the ascetic Gotama who conducts himself having abandoned these qualities without remainder, rather than the other venerable teachers of groups (gaṇācariyā).' Thus, Kassapa, wise persons, questioning, pressing, and cross-examining, would for the most part praise us alone in that matter."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.