When the crowd had been taught, roused, gladdened and delighted by the lord with talk on dhamma, and had risen from their seats, greeting the lord and walking round him, keeping their right side towards him, they departed. And not long after the crowd had departed Sudinna, the Kalandaka, came up to the lord and having come up, he greeted the lord and sat down to one side. As he was sitting to one side, Sudinna, the Kalandaka, spoke thus to the lord: