Then Subrahmā multiplied himself two thousand times and said to that divinity, “Good fellow, can’t you see that I have such psychic power?” “I see that, good fellow.” “That Buddha has even more psychic power and might than you or me. Shouldn’t you go to attend on that Blessed One?” Then that divinity addressed Subrahmā in verse:

“There are three hundreds of phoenixes, <j>four of swans, and five of tigerhawks. <j>To he who practiced absorption belongs this palace; it shines, Divinity, lighting up the northern quarter!”

“So what if your palace shines, lighting up the northern quarter? A clever person, seeing the strife in form, its chronic trembling, takes no pleasure in it.”

Then after inspiring awe in that divinity, the independent divinities Subrahmā and Suddhāvāsa vanished right there. And after some time that divinity went to attend on the Buddha.

Linked Discourses 6.7 1. The Appeal About Kokālika