Eight Marvelous Qualities – Four
(4) “Just as whatever great rivers there are… on reaching the great ocean lose their former names and identities and are just called ‘the great ocean,’ so also (those of) the four castes — nobles, brahmans, merchants, and workers — having gone forth from home to the homeless state in the Dhamma and Discipline made known by the Tathagata, abandon their former names and identities and are just called ‘recluses, the followers of the Sakyan son.’ This is the fourth wonderful and marvellous quality in this Dhamma and Discipline…
“Uposatha Sutta: The Observance Day” (Ud 5.5), translated from the Pali by John D. Ireland. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 13 June 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.5.05.irel.html .