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Shortly thereafter Devadatta asked the Buddha to retire and let him take over the running of the Sangha.

The Buddha retorted that he did not even let his trusted disciples Sāriputta or Moggallāna run the Sangha, much less one like him, who should be vomited like spittle, and he gave a special act of publicity about him, warning the monks that he had changed for the worse.