Exalted Utterances - Udāna (KN 3)

1: Bodhivaggo - 11
“Not nourishing another, well-known, controlled, established in the
essential, 19
With pollutants destroyed, rid of faults: him I call a brāhmaṇa.” 20
1.7 The Discourse about Pāvā
Thus I heard: at one time the Gracious One was dwelling near Pāvā,
near the Flock of Goats Shrine, at the domicile of the Flock of Goats
yakkha. Then at that time the Gracious One, in the darkness of the
night, was sitting in the open air, and the sky-god 21 was raining lightly
drop by drop.
Then the Flock of Goats yakkha desiring to give rise to fear, terror,
and horror in the Gracious One,went to the Gracious One, and after
going, not far away from the Gracious One three times (he called out):
19 The Commentary states that anaññaposiṁ here can also mean not
nourished by another, though it is hard to see how such an epithet can apply
to an almsman! The Commentary defines aññāta as meaning either wellknown,
or its opposite, unknown! Udānavarga (33-23) reads: Ananyapoṣī hy
ājñātā, which suggests that the Sanskrit redactor(s) understood that the first
meaning was the original.
20 Āsava is literally an outflow or overflow; pollutant, which is the translation
adopted here, is semantically identical in meaning, from Latin polluere, to
wash over, to defile.
21 Deva is used in the Mahābhārata as a name of Indra, in his role of god of
the sky, and giver of rain, and that is clearly the sense here. See SED under
the entry deva.