Saṃyutta Nikāya
I. Sagatha Vagga
9. Vana Saṃyutta
Sutta 4
Sambahula Suttaṃ
Many
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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[4.1][pts] On one occasion many monks were staying among the Kosalans in a forest grove. Then, at the end of the Rains, they left to go on a three-month wandering tour.
And at that time, the devatā living in that forest grove, lamenting from not seeing those monks, recited this verse:
"Today it's as if discontent
is displayed to me,
as I see many empty seats.
They, brilliant speakers, learned:
Where have those disciples
of Gotama gone?"
When this was said, another devatā recited a verse for that devatā:
"They've gone to Magadha,
gone to Kosala,
and some to the land of the Vajjians.
Like deer, wandering free from ties,
the monks dwell without home."
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