Dighanikaya 4.304_9

4.304_9

Aparampi vatthu – rāhu kira asurindo cattāri yojanasahassāni aṭṭha ca yojanasatāni ucco. Bāhantaramassa dvādasayojanasatāni. Bahalantarena cha yojanasatāni. Hatthatalapādatalānaṃ puthulato tīṇi yojanasatāni. Aṅgulipabbāni paṇṇāsayojanāni. Bhamukantaraṃ paṇṇāsayojanaṃ. Mukhaṃ dviyojanasataṃ tiyojanasatagambhīraṃ tiyojanasataparimaṇḍalaṃ. Gīvā tiyojanasataṃ. Nalāṭaṃ tiyojanasataṃ. Sīsaṃ navayojanasataṃ. ‘‘So ahaṃ uccosmi, satthāraṃ onamitvā oloketuṃ na sakkhissāmī’’ti cintetvā nāgacchi. So ekadivasaṃ bhagavato vaṇṇaṃ sutvā – ‘‘yathākathañca olokessāmī’’ti āgato.

There is also another story: Rāhu, lord of the asuras, was four thousand eight hundred yojanas high. The span of his arms was one thousand two hundred yojanas. His thickness was six hundred yojanas. The width of the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet was three hundred yojanas. The joints of his fingers were fifty yojanas. The space between his eyebrows was fifty yojanas. His mouth was two hundred yojanas wide, three hundred yojanas deep, and three hundred yojanas in circumference. His neck was three hundred yojanas. His forehead was three hundred yojanas. His head was nine hundred yojanas. Thinking, "I am so tall, I will not be able to bend down and look at the Teacher," he did not come. One day, having heard the praise of the Blessed One, he came, thinking: "I will look somehow or other."