Dighanikaya 19.304

19.304

Yāva dīgharattaṃ mahāpaññova so bhagavāti ettakanti paricchinditvā na sakkā vattuṃ, atha kho yāva dīgharattaṃ aticirarattaṃ mahāpaññova so bhagavā. Noti kathaṃ tumhe maññathāti. Atha sayamevetaṃ pañhaṃ byākātukāmo – ‘‘anacchariyametaṃ, mārisā, yaṃ idāni pāramiyo pūretvā bodhipallaṅke tiṇṇaṃ mārānaṃ matthakaṃ bhinditvā paṭividdhaasādhāraṇañāṇo so bhagavā mahāpañño bhaveyya, kimettha acchariyaṃ, aparipakkāya pana bodhiyā padesañāṇe ṭhitassa sarāgādikālepi mahāpaññabhāvameva vo, mārisā, kathessāmī’’ti bhavapaṭicchannakāraṇaṃ āharitvā dassento bhūtapubbaṃ bhotiādimāha.

“For how long that Blessed One has been of great wisdom!” means: it is not possible to say, limiting it by saying, “For this long”; rather, for so long a time, for an extremely long time indeed, that Blessed One has been of great wisdom. “Do you not?” means: what do you think? Then, wishing to resolve this question himself, he said: “This is not wonderful, sirs, that now, having fulfilled the perfections and broken the heads of the three Māras on the throne of awakening, that Blessed One, having penetrated unshared knowledge, should be of great wisdom. What is wonderful about this? But when his awakening was not yet ripe, while standing in partial knowledge even at a time with lust and the like, of his state of great wisdom alone will I tell you, sirs!” And bringing forth the explanation hidden in [past] existence, to show it he said, “In the past, sir,” and so forth.