Dighanikaya 14.17

14.17

Atha kho, bhikkhave, vipassī bodhisattotiādīsu pana vipassīti tassa nāmaṃ, tañca kho vividhe atthe passanakusalatāya laddhaṃ. Bodhisattoti paṇḍitasatto bujjhanakasatto. Bodhisaṅkhātesu vā catūsu maggesu satto āsatto laggamānasoti bodhisatto. Sato sampajānoti ettha satoti satiyeva. Sampajānoti ñāṇaṃ. Satiṃ sūpaṭṭhitaṃ katvā ñāṇena paricchinditvā mātukucchiṃ okkamīti attho. Okkamīti iminā cassa okkantabhāvo pāḷiyaṃ dassito, na okkamanakkamo. So pana yasmā aṭṭhakathaṃ ārūḷho, tasmā evaṃ veditabbo –

In the passage beginning with "Then indeed, monks, the Bodhisatta Vipassī": 'Vipassī' is his name, and he obtained it through his skill in seeing diverse matters. 'Bodhisatto' (Bodhisatta): a wise being, an awakening being. Or, a Bodhisatta is a being attached, clinging, with mind bound to the four paths known as awakening. 'Sato sampajāno' (mindful and fully aware): here, 'mindful' means with mindfulness itself. 'Fully aware' means knowledge. The meaning is: having well established mindfulness and having discerned with knowledge, he descended into the mother's womb. By 'okkami' (descended), his descent is shown in the Pāli text, not the sequence of descent. But because that has entered into the commentary, it should be understood as follows: