At Sāvatthī. Now at that time the Buddha had gone into retreat for the day’s meditation. Then the independent divinities Subrahmā and Suddhāvāsa went to the Buddha and stationed themselves one by each door-post. Then Subrahmā spoke this verse about the mendicant Kokālika in the Buddha’s presence:

“What wise person here would judge the immeasurable by measuring them? I think anyone who’d do such a thing is an ordinary person, shrouded.”