SN6:8 Tissaka
- DG BB TBW © Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi. (More copyright information)
1At Sāvatthī … . as in the previous sutta … Then, referring to the bhikkhu Katamorakatissaka, the independent brahma suddhāvasā recited this verse in the presence of the Blessed One: [n.401] In Be and Ee1 & 2 the monk's name is spelt "-modaka-." He was one of the renegades who joined Devadatta in his plot to create a schism in the Saṅgha. Spk explains akissava, in pāda d, as nippañña, kissava being equivalent to paññā. Spk-pṭ derives kissava, perhaps by "folk etymology," from "that by which one hears what" (kinti suṇati etaya ti), i.e., learns what is wholesome and unwholesome, etc. sn.i.149
2v.587 "What wise man here would seek to define
An immeasurable one by taking his measure?
He who would measure an immeasurable one
Must be, I think, an obstructed moron."
1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. Tena kho pana samayena bhagavā divāvihāragato hoti paṭisallīno. Atha kho subrahmā ca paccekabrahmā suddhāvāso ca paccekabrahmā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā paccekaṁ dvārabāhaṁ nissāya aṭṭhaṁsu. Atha kho suddhāvāso paccekabrahmā katamodakatissakaṁ bhikkhuṁ ārabbha bhagavato santike imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:
2"Appameyyaṁ paminanto,
Kodha vidvā vikappaye;
Appameyyaṁ pamāyinaṁ,
Nivutaṁ taṁ maññe akissavan"ti.