8.
The Discourse on Nanda
242.
He was dwelling at Sāvatthī.
Then the Venerable Nanda, the Blessed One's maternal aunt's son, having put on pressed and smoothed robes, having applied collyrium to his eyes, having taken a clear bowl, approached the Blessed One;
having approached, he paid respect to the Blessed One and sat down to one side.
To the Venerable Nanda seated to one side, the Blessed One said this:
"This is indeed not proper for you, Nanda, as a son of good family who has gone forth from home into homelessness through faith, that you should wear pressed and smoothed robes, that you should apply collyrium to your eyes, and that you should carry a clear bowl.
This is indeed proper for you, Nanda, as a son of good family who has gone forth from home into homelessness through faith, that you should be a forest-dweller, an almsfood eater, a wearer of rag-robes, and that you should dwell without longing for sensual pleasures."
This is what the Blessed One said, etc.
the Teacher -
Sustaining himself by gleaning from strangers, without longing for sensual pleasures."
Then the Venerable Nanda at a later time was a forest-dweller, an almsfood eater, a wearer of rag-robes, and dwelt without longing for sensual pleasures. The eighth.