dn23:3.1 Now at that time the chieftain Pāyāsi had retired to the upper floor of his stilt longhouse for his midday nap.
dn23:3.2 He saw the brahmins and householders heading north toward the grove,
dn23:3.3 and addressed his butler,
dn23:3.4 “My butler, why are the brahmins and householders heading north toward the grove?”
dn23:3.5 “The ascetic Kassapa the Prince—a disciple of the ascetic Gotama—is staying in the rosewood grove to the north of Setavyā.
dn23:3.6 He has this good reputation:
dn23:3.7 ‘He is astute, competent, intelligent, learned, a brilliant speaker, eloquent, mature, a perfected one.’
dn23:3.8 They’re going to see that Kassapa the Prince.”
dn23:3.9 “Well then, go to the brahmins and householders and say to them:
dn23:3.10 ‘Worthy sir, the chieftain Pāyāsi asks
dn23:3.11 you to wait, as he will also go to see the ascetic Kassapa the Prince.’
dn23:3.12 Before Kassapa the Prince persuades those foolish and incompetent brahmins and householders that
dn23:3.13 there is an afterlife, there are beings reborn spontaneously, and there is a fruit or result of good and bad deeds—
dn23:3.14 for none of these things are true!”
dn23:3.15 “Yes, worthy sir,” replied the butler, and did as he was asked.

