9.
The First Discourse on Sukkā
243.
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrels' Feeding Ground.
Now at that time the nun Sukkā, surrounded by a great assembly, was expounding the Teaching.
Then a demon who was devoted to the nun Sukkā, having gone from road to road, from crossroads to crossroads in Rājagaha, at that time spoke these verses -
"What have the people of Rājagaha done, that they lie as if drunk on honey;
Who do not attend upon Sukkā, teaching the Deathless state.
"And that which is irresistible, full and delicious in itself, nourishing;
The wise drink it, methinks, like travellers from a rain cloud."