Dighanikaya 18.280_2

18.280_2

Ito sattāti ito devalokā cavitvā satta. Tato sattāti tato manussalokā cavitvā satta. Saṃsārāni catuddasāti sabbāpi catuddasakhandhapaṭipāṭiyo. Nivāsamabhijānāmīti jātivasena nivāsaṃ jānāmi. Yattha me vusitaṃ pureti yattha devesu ca vessavaṇassa sahabyataṃ upagatena manussesu ca rājabhūtena ito attabhāvato pureyeva mayā vusitaṃ. Pure evaṃ vusitattā eva ca idāni sotāpanno hutvā tīsu vatthūsu bahuṃ puññaṃ katvā tassānubhāvena upari nibbattituṃ samatthopi dīgharattaṃ vusitaṭṭhāne nikantiyā balavatāya ettheva nibbatto.

"Seven from here" means seven having passed away from this world of the devas. "Seven from there" means seven having passed away from that world of human beings. "Fourteen rounds of saṃsāra" means all the fourteen successions of aggregates. "I recall my past dwelling" means I know the past dwelling by way of births. "Where I lived before" means where among the devas, having attained companionship with Vessavaṇa, and among human beings, having become a king, I lived even before this individual existence. And simply because he had lived in this way before, now having become a stream-enterer and having made much merit with respect to the three objects, even though he was capable of being reborn in higher realms through the power of that [merit], due to strong attachment to the place where he had lived for a long time, he was reborn right here.