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Many Sambahula Sutta (SN 9:4) On one occasion many monks were staying among the Kosalans in a forest grove. Then, at the end of the Rains, they left to go on a three-month wandering tour. And at that time, the devatā living in that forest grove, lamenting from not seeing those monks, recited this verse: “Today it’s as if discontent is displayed to me, as I see many empty seats. They, brilliant speakers, learned: Where have those disciples of Gotama gone?” When this was said, another devatā recited a verse for that devatā: “They’ve gone to Magadha, gone to Kosala, & some to the land of the Vajjians. Like deer, wandering free from ties, the monks dwell without home.”