パセーナディ（Pasenadi）王が鹿園で仏陀を訪れ、いかなる沙門も全知を主張できるか、解脱に関する種姓の区別、神々の存在について問う経で、会話は仏陀の教えの誤った伝え方をめぐる論争へと広がるが、王の馬車が到着したところで未解決のまま終わる。

A discourse in which King Pasenadi visits the Buddha at a deer park and questions him on whether any recluse can claim omniscience, on caste distinctions regarding liberation, and on the existence of gods, a conversation that expands into a dispute over a misrepresentation of the Buddha’s teaching, left unresolved when the king’s chariot arrives.