sn47.29:1.1 At one time Venerable Ānanda was staying near Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground.
sn47.29:1.2 Now at that time the householder Sirivaḍḍha was sick, suffering, gravely ill.
sn47.29:1.3 Then he addressed a man:
sn47.29:1.4 “Please, my man, go to Venerable Ānanda, and in my name bow with your head to his feet. Say to him:
sn47.29:1.5 ‘Sir, the householder Sirivaḍḍha is sick, suffering, gravely ill.
sn47.29:1.6 He bows with his head to your feet.’
sn47.29:1.7 And then say:
sn47.29:1.8 ‘Sir, please visit him at his home out of sympathy.’”
sn47.29:1.9 “Yes, sir,” that man replied. He did as Sirivaḍḍha asked.
sn47.29:1.13 Ānanda consented with silence.