When he had spoken, the householder Upāli got up from his seat, arranged his robe over one shoulder, raised his joined palms in the direction of the Buddha, and said to the Jain Ñātika, joyful, he has spat out the world’s bait; he has completed the ascetic’s task as a man, a man who bears his final body; he’s beyond compare, he’s stainless: he is the Buddha, and I am his disciple. He’s free of doubt, he’s skillful, he’s a trainer, an excellent charioteer; supreme, with brilliant qualities, confi