ཐེག་པ་གསུམ་དག་ཉེ་བར་བསྟན་པ་ནི། །དེ་དག་ང་ཡི་ཐབས་མཁས་མཆོག་ཡིན་ནོ། །
{21} In that assembly two hundred thousand great śrāvakas such as Ājñāta­kauṇḍinya, who were arhats, whose defilements had ceased and who had attained power, and also bhikṣus, bhikṣuṇīs, upāsakas, and upāsikās who followed the Śrāvakayāna, and also those who followed the Pratyeka­buddha­yāna, all thought, “What is the cause and what is the reason why the Bhagavān has praised the skill in methods of the tathāgatas, and said, ‘This profound Dharma is the attainment of buddhahood’ and ‘It is difficult for all śrāvakas and pratyeka­buddhas to understand it’?
Perfection of Wisdom, Buddhists, Spiritual Practice