Dighanikaya 14.29

14.29

Visadova nikkhamatīti yathā aññe sattā yonimagge laggantā bhaggavibhaggā nikkhamanti, na evaṃ nikkhamati, alaggo hutvā nikkhamatīti attho udenāti udakena. Kenaci asucināti yathā aññe sattā kammajavātehi uddhaṃpādā adhosirā yonimagge pakkhittā sataporisaṃ narakapapātaṃ patantā viya, tāḷacchiddena nikkaḍḍhiyamānā hatthī viya mahādukkhaṃ anubhavantā nānāasucimakkhitāva nikkhamanti, na evaṃ bodhisatto. Bodhisattañhi kammajavātā uddhapādaṃ adhosiraṃ kātuṃ na sakkonti. So dhammāsanato otaranto dhammakathiko viya, nisseṇito otaranto puriso viya ca dve hatthe ca dve pāde ca pasāretvā ṭhitakova mātukucchisambhavena kenaci asucinā amakkhitova nikkhamati.

"He emerges quite pure": the meaning is that just as other beings emerge touching the birth canal, broken and shattered, he does not emerge in this way; he emerges untouched. "By water" [means] with water. "By any impurity": just as other beings, propelled by birth-winds, with feet upwards and head downwards, thrown into the birth canal like people falling into a hundred-fathom precipice of hell, like an elephant being dragged through a keyhole, experiencing great suffering, emerge completely smeared with various impurities, the Bodhisatta does not [emerge] in this way. For the birth-winds cannot turn the Bodhisatta with his feet upwards and his head downwards. He, like a preacher of the Dhamma descending from the Dhamma-seat, or like a man descending a ladder, stretching out his two hands and two feet, standing straight, emerges completely unsmeared by any impurity produced from the mother's womb.