1On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrel Sanctuary. The brahmin Akkosaka Bharadvaja, Bharadvaja the Abusive, heard: [n.433] I give the sobriquet both in Pali and in English. Spk, which identifies him as the younger brother of the first Bharadvaja brahmin, says that the epithet was added by the redactors of the canon because he came abusing (akkosanto) the Tathāgata with five hundred verses. "It is said that the brahmin of the Bharadvaja clan has gone forth from the household life into homelessness under the ascetic Gotama." Angry and displeased, he approached the Blessed One and sn.i.162 abused and reviled him with rude, harsh words.

2When he had finished speaking, the Blessed One said to him: "What do you think, brahmin? Do your friends and colleagues, kinsmen and relatives, as well as guests come to visit you?"
"Sometimes they come to visit, Master Gotama."
"Do you then offer them some food or a meal or a snack?"
"Sometimes I do, Master Gotama."
"But if they do not accept it from you, then to whom does the food belong?"
"If they do not accept it from me, then the food still belongs to us."
"So too, brahmin, we who do not abuse anyone, who do not scold anyone, who do not rail against anyone—refuse to accept from you the abuse and scolding and tirade you let loose at us. It still belongs to you, brahmin! It still belongs to you, brahmin!

3"Brahmin, one who abuses his own abuser, who scolds the one who scolds him, who rails against the one who rails at him—he is said to partake of the meal, to enter upon an exchange. But we do not partake of your meal; we do not enter upon an exchange. It still belongs to you, brahmin! It still belongs to you, brahmin!"

"The king and his retinue understand the ascetic Gotama to be an arahant, yet Master Gotama still gets angry." [n.434] Spk: He had heard that seers (isi) inflict a curse when they become angry, so when the Buddha said, "It still belongs to you, brahmin!" he was frightened, thinking, "The ascetic Gotama, it seems, is putting a curse on me." Therefore he spoke thus.

The Blessed One:

4v.615 "How can anger arise in one who is angerless,
In the tamed one of righteous living,
In one liberated by perfect knowledge,
In the Stable One who abides in peace? [n.435] I have translated tadi as "the Stable One" in accordance with the commentarial gloss, tadilakkhaṇaṁ pattassa, which alludes to the explanation of tadi at Nidd I 114–16: "The arahant is tadi because he is ‘stable’ (tadi) in the face of gain and loss, etc.; he is tadi because he has given up all defilements, etc.; he is tadi because he has crossed the four floods, etc.; he is tadi because his mind is free from all defilements; and he is tadi as a description of him in terms of his qualities" (condensed). A similar but slightly different definition of tadi in relation to the Buddha occurs at Nidd I 459–61.

5v.616 "One who repays an angry man with anger
Thereby makes things worse for himself.
Not repaying an angry man with anger,
One wins a battle hard to win.

6v.617 "He practises for the welfare of both—
His own and the other's—
When, knowing that his foe is angry,
He mindfully maintains his peace.

7v.618 "When he achieves the cure of both—
His own and the other's—
The people who consider him a fool
Are unskilled in the Dhamma." [n.436] Be and Ee1 & 2 read pāda a: ubhinnaṁ tikicchantanaṁ, which Spk (Be) includes in the lemma and glosses ubhinnaṁ tikicchantaṁ, adding: "Or the latter is itself the reading." In Se and Spk (Se) the readings are exactly the reverse. As the sense requires an accusative singular, the reading ubhinnaṁ tikicchantaṁ taṁ, found at Th 444a, offends against neither grammar nor metre. Ee2 has adopted this reading for the exact parallel v. 882 below, but strangely reverts to ubhinnaṁ tikicchantanaṁ in the third parallel, v. 891. sn.i.163

8When this was said, the brahmin Akkosaka Bharadvaja said to the Blessed One: "Magnificent, Master Gotama! … I go for refuge to Master Gotama, and to the Dhamma, and to the Bhikkhu Saṅgha. May I receive the going forth under Master Gotama, may I receive the higher ordination?"

9Then the brahmin of the Bharadvaja clan received the going forth under the Blessed One, he received the higher ordination. And soon, not long after his higher ordination, dwelling alone … … the Venerable Bharadvaja became one of the arahants.

1Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe vihārati veḷuvane kalandakanivāpe. Assosi kho akkosakabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo: "bhāradvājagotto kira brāhmaṇo samaṇassa gotamassa santike agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajito"ti kupito anattamano yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ asabbhāhi pharusāhi vācāhi akkosati paribhāsati.

2Evaṁ vutte, bhagavā akkosakabhāradvājaṁ brāhmaṇaṁ etadavoca: "taṁ kiṁ maññasi, brāhmaṇa, api nu kho te āgacchanti mittāmaccā ñātisālohitā atithiyo"ti?
"Appekadā me, bho gotama, āgacchanti mittāmaccā ñātisālohitā atithiyo"ti.
"Taṁ kiṁ maññasi, brāhmaṇa, api nu tesaṁ anuppadesi khādanīyaṁ vā bhojanīyaṁ vā sāyanīyaṁ vā"ti?
"Appekadā nesāhaṁ, bho gotama, anuppademi khādanīyaṁ vā bhojanīyaṁ vā sāyanīyaṁ vā"ti.
"Sace kho pana te, brāhmaṇa, nappaṭiggaṇhanti, kassa taṁ hotī"ti?
"Sace te, bho gotama, nappaṭiggaṇhanti, amhākameva taṁ hotī"ti.
"Evameva kho, brāhmaṇa, yaṁ tvaṁ amhe anakkosante akkosasi, arosente rosesi, abhaṇḍante bhaṇḍasi, taṁ te mayaṁ nappaṭiggaṇhāma. Tavevetaṁ, brāhmaṇa, hoti; tavevetaṁ, brāhmaṇa, hoti.

3Yo kho, brāhmaṇa, akkosantaṁ paccakkosati, rosentaṁ paṭiroseti, bhaṇḍantaṁ paṭibhaṇḍati, ayaṁ vuccati, brāhmaṇa, sambhuñjati vītiharatīti. Te mayaṁ tayā neva sambhuñjāma na vītiharāma. Tavevetaṁ, brāhmaṇa, hoti; tavevetaṁ, brāhmaṇa, hotī"ti.
"Bhavantaṁ kho gotamaṁ sarājikā parisā evaṁ jānāti: ‘arahaṁ samaṇo gotamo’ti. Atha ca pana bhavaṁ gotamo kujjhatī"ti.

4"Akkodhassa kuto kodho,
dantassa samajīvino;
Sammadaññā vimuttassa,
upasantassa tādino.

5Tasseva tena pāpiyo,
yo kuddhaṁ paṭikujjhati;
Kuddhaṁ appaṭikujjhanto,
saṅgāmaṁ jeti dujjayaṁ.

6Ubhinnamatthaṁ carati,
attano ca parassa ca;
Paraṁ saṅkupitaṁ ñatvā,
yo sato upasammati.

7Ubhinnaṁ tikicchantānaṁ,
attano ca parassa ca;
Janā maññanti bāloti,
ye dhammassa akovidā"ti.

8Evaṁ vutte, akkosakabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca: "Abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama … pe … esāhaṁ bhavantaṁ gotamaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi dhammañca bhikkhusaṅghañca. Labheyyāhaṁ, bhante, bhoto gotamassa santike pabbajjaṁ, labheyyaṁ upasampadan"ti.

9Alattha kho akkosakabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo bhagavato santike pabbajjaṁ, alattha upasampadaṁ. Acirūpasampanno kho panāyasmā akkosakabhāradvājo eko vūpakaṭṭho appamatto ātāpī pahitatto vihāranto nacirasseva – yassatthāya kulaputtā sammadeva agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajanti tadanuttaraṁ – brahmacariyapariyosānaṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja vihāsi. "Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṁ brahmacariyaṁ, kataṁ karaṇīyaṁ nāparaṁ itthattāyā"ti abbhaññāsi. Aññataro ca panāyasmā bhāradvājo arahataṁ ahosīti.