snp2.12:1.1 So I have heard.
BAGIAN 1
snp2.12:1.2 At one time the Buddha was staying near Āḷavī, at Āḷavī’s premier shrine.
snp2.12:1.3 Now at that time it was not long after Venerable Vaṅgīsa’s mentor, the senior monk named Nigrodhakappa, had become fully quenched.
snp2.12:1.4 Then as Vaṅgīsa was in private retreat this thought came to his mind:
snp2.12:1.5 “Has my mentor become quenched or not?”
snp2.12:1.6 Then in the late afternoon, Venerable Vaṅgīsa came out of retreat and went to the Buddha. He bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:
snp2.12:1.7 “Just now, sir, as I was in private retreat this thought came to mind.
snp2.12:1.8 ‘Has my mentor become quenched or not?’”
snp2.12:1.9 Then Venerable Vaṅgīsa rose from his seat, arranged his robe over one shoulder, raised his cupped palms toward the Buddha, and addressed him in verse: