The ninth discourse of the Aṭṭhakavagga of the Suttanipāta, recording the Buddha’s rejection of Māgaṇḍiya’s offer of his daughter and his teaching that purity comes from inner peace, not from philosophical dispute.

A discourse recording the Buddha’s conversation with the wanderer Māgaṇḍiya, in which he explains that true health and Nibbāna differ from what other teachers imagine, leading Māgaṇḍiya to ordain and become an Arahant.