 The alternative translation is based on this possible idiomatic usage of the future tense in Pali, and understands the brahmin Dona to be asking the Buddha in confusion or amazement what he is—a god (deva), a gandharva, a yaksha or human.The Buddha answers emphatically that he is not any of these ("na bhavissāmi"), but that he is a Buddha.This reasoning is used in the Chinese translations of "T 2.717c" and "T 2.28a".