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Tena kho pana samayena āyasmā nāgaseno samaṇagaṇaparivuto saṅghī gaṇī gaṇācariyo ñāto yasassī sādhusammato bahujanassa paṇḍito byatto medhāvī nipuṇo viññū vibhāvī vinīto visārado bahussuto tepiṭako vedagū pabhinnabuddhimā āgatāgamo pabhinnapaṭisambhido navaṅgasatthusāsane pariyattidharo pāramippatto jinavacane dhammatthadesanāpaṭivedhakusalo akkhayavicitrapaṭibhāno citrakathī kalyāṇavākkaraṇo durāsado duppasaho duruttaro durāvaraṇo dunnivārayo, sāgaro viya akkhobho, girirājā viya niccalo, raṇañjaho tamonudo pabhaṅkaro mahākathī paragaṇigaṇamathano paratitthiyamaddano bhikkhūnaṃ bhikkhunīnaṃ upāsakānaṃ upāsikānaṃ rājūnaṃ rājamahāmattānaṃ sakkato garukato mānito pūjito apacito lābhī cīvarapiṇḍapātasenāsanagilānappaccayabhesajjaparikkhārānaṃ lābhaggayasaggappatto vuddhānaṃ viññūnaṃ sotāvadhānena samannāgatānaṃ sandassento navaṅgaṃ jinasāsanaratanaṃ, upadisanto dhammamaggaṃ, dhārento dhammappajjotaṃ, ussāpento dhammayūpaṃ, yajanto dhammayāgaṃ, paggaṇhanto dhammaddhajaṃ, ussāpento dhammaketuṃ, dhamento [uppaḷāsento (sī. pī.)] dhammasaṅkhaṃ, āhananto dhammabheriṃ, nadanto sīhanādaṃ, gajjanto indagajjitaṃ, madhuragiragajjitena ñāṇavaravijjujālapariveṭhitena karuṇājalabharitena mahatā dhammāmatameghena sakalalokamabhitappayanto gāmanigamarājadhānīsu cārikaṃ caramāno anupubbena sāgalanagaraṃ anuppatto hoti.
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Now at that time Venerable Nāgasena was surrounded by a group of ascetics. He was the leader of an Order, leader of a group and teacher of a group. He was well known, famous, and highly esteemed by the people. He was wise, disciplined, and confident. He was well versed in the Three Collections and was an expert in the nine divisions of the scriptures22 and he had attained to the perfections.23 He was skilled in the teaching of the Dhamma, in answering questions promptly and in getting rid of conflict. His enunciation was lovely. He was venerated and esteemed by monks and nuns, male and female lay devotees, kings and kings’ ministers. He was the recipient of the four requisites of robe material, alms food, lodgings and medicine. This Venerable Nāgasena, walking on tour among the villages, towns and cities, arrived in due course at the town of Sāgala
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Now at that time the venerable Nāgasena, after making his alms-tour through the villages, towns, and cities, had in due course arrived at Sāgala, attended by a band of Samaṇas, as the leader of a company of the Order; the head of a body of disciples; the teacher of a school; famous and renowned, and highly esteemed by the people. And he was learned, clever, wise, sagacious, and able; a skilful expounder, of subdued manners, but full of courage; well versed in tradition, master of the three Baskets (Piṭakas), and erudite in Vedic lore. He was in possession of the highest (Buddhist) insight, a master of all that had been handed down in the schools, and of the various discriminations by which the most abstruse points can be explained. He knew by heart the ninefold divisions of the doctrine of the Buddha to perfection, and was equally skilled in discerning both the spirit and the letter of the Word. Endowed with instantaneous and varied power of repartee, and wealth of language, and beauty of eloquence, he was difficult to equal, and still more difficult to excel, difficult to answer, to repel, or to refute. He was imperturbable as the depths of the sea, immovable as the king of mountains; victorious in the struggle with evil, a dispeller of darkness and diffuser of light; mighty in eloquence, a confounder of the followers of other masters, and a crusher-out of the adherents of rival doctrines (malleus hereticorum). Honoured and revered by the brethren and sisters of the Order, and its lay adherents of either sex, and by kings and their high officials, he was in the abundant receipt of all the requisites of a member of the Order—robes and bowl and lodging, and whatever is needful for the sick—receiving the highest veneration no less than material gifts. To the wise and discerning who came to him with listening ear he displayed the ninefold jewel of the Conqueror’s word, he pointed out to them the path of righteousness, bore aloft for them the torch of truth, set up for them the sacred pillar of the truth, and celebrated for their benefit the sacrifice of the truth. For them he waved the banner, raised the standard, blew the trumpet, and beat the drum of truth. And with his mighty lion’s voice, like Indra’s thunder but sweet the while, he poured out upon them a plenteous shower, heavy with drops of mercy, and brilliant with the coruscations of the lightning flashes of his knowledge, of the nectar waters of the teaching of the Nirvāṇa of the truth—thus satisfying to the full a thirsty world.
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А тем временем достопочтенный Нагасена в окружении свиты подвижников, глава общины, учитель школы, руководитель школы98, известный, прославленный, высоко чтимый многими людьми, ученый, мудрый, искусный, знающий, могучий, смиренный, опытный, образованный, помнящий все Три Корзины, сведущий, разумом гибкий и мощный, наследник наследия, обладатель толкующих знаний, хранящий в памяти девять частей наставления Учителя99, достигший совершенства, по глаголу Победителя смысл Учения во благе проникновенно излагающий, толковник неизменно блистающий, рассказчик красноречивый, благие речи произносящий, несравненный, неотразимый, непревосходимый, неодолимый, неудержимый, неколебимый, как океан, несокрушимый, как царь гор, гонитель мрака светлосиянный, велеречивый, множества иных школ сокрушитель, учений соперников истребитель; среди монахов, монахинь, мирян, мирянок, царей, вельмож уважаемый, почитаемый, чтимый, признанный, ценимый; одежду, пропитание, приют, лекарства на случай болезни всегда получающий100; мудрым, знающим, к нему с вниманием прибегнувшим, Учение Победителя – девятичастное сокровище – вверяющий; указующий путь дхармы, держащий светоч дхармы, устанавливающий жертвенный столб дхармы, приносящий жертву дхармы, развертывающий знамя дхармы, вздымающий стяг дхармы, трубящий в боевую раковину дхармы, бьющий в литавры дхармы, издающий боевой клич дхармы, грохочущий громами Индры и из сладостно рокочущей громами, озаренной сетью молний познания, отягощенной влагою милосердия огромной дождевой тучи проливающий нектар дхармы на весь жаждущий мир, странствовал по деревням, торжкам и столицам и наконец прибыл в город Сагалу.
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