འཕགས་པ་ཁྱའ་བཞའ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.2

2.2

and they have fostered roots of virtue with many hundreds of buddhas. They have heard, while in the presence of other blessed buddhas, in other buddha fields, that tonight in the last watch of the night, in the country of the Mallas, between a pair of śāla trees, I, the thus-gone, worthy, perfect Buddha, will pass into complete nirvāṇa that is beyond all limits, the parinirvāṇa that is beyond conception, the parinirvāṇa that is unlike anything in all worlds, the parinirvāṇa that outshines anything in all worlds, the parinirvāṇa that brings benefit and wellness to all worlds, the parinirvāṇa that is hard to comprehend in all worlds, the parinirvāṇa that quells imputations in all worlds. They have heard that I will pass into parinirvāṇa, so they have taken rebirth here, in this world.

“Have you seen these four boys who have come here from the four directions to hear my Dharma teachings, whose good qualities are praised and proclaimed in this way?

“Ānanda, the child who came from the east has a good complexion and is bright and handsome. He shines with light and blazes with glory. He is accompanied by many hundreds of thousands of beings and is venerated by a hundred thousand gods. Ānanda, this child who was showered with divine flowers as he came into the presence of the Thus-Gone One was previously a king in the buddha field of the thus-gone, worthy, perfect buddha Siṃhanādeśvara. He was a universal monarch, venerated by gods and humans, who ruled over a thousand worlds. During his reign, he taught gods and humans of the desire realm and propagated the Dharma. When teaching the Dharma to many hundreds of thousands of beings, he caused their roots of virtue to mature, and he was skilled in clairvoyance.