nine days … eight days … seven days … six days … five days … four days … three days … two days … Let alone two days, take one of my disciples who lives diligent, keen, and resolute for one day, practicing in line with my instructions. They can experience absolute happiness for a hundred years, ten thousand years, or a hundred thousand years. And they could become a once-returner or a non-returner, or, as a sure bet, a stream-enterer. It’s your loss, Sakyans, it’s your misfortune. In this life with its fear of sorrow and death, you sometimes keep the sabbath and you sometimes don’t.” “Well, sir, from this day forth we will observe the sabbath with its eight factors.”

Numbered Discourses 10.47 5. Abuse With Mahāli