sn35.132:1.1 At one time Venerable Mahākaccāna was staying in the land of the Avantis in a wilderness hut near Makkarakaṭa.
sn35.132:1.2 Then several students, pupils of the brahmin Lohicca, approached Mahākaccāna’s wilderness hut while collecting firewood. They walked and wandered all around the hut, making a colossal racket and all kinds of jeers:
sn35.132:1.3 “These shavelings, fake ascetics, primitives, black spawn from the feet of our kinsman, the Lord! They’re honored, respected, revered, venerated, and esteemed by so-called inheritors of Vedic culture.”
sn35.132:1.4 Then Mahākaccāna left his dwelling and said to those young students,
sn35.132:1.5 “Young students, stop being so noisy.
sn35.132:1.6 I will speak to you on the teaching.”
sn35.132:1.7 When this was said, the young students fell silent.
sn35.132:1.8 Then Mahākaccāna recited these verses for them: