Mahapadanasutta 1.13

1.13

Now not long after he had gone out, this talk arose amonor the brethren: — 'How wonderful a thing, brethren, and how strange is the great genius, the master mind of the Tathagata, that he should remember the Buddhas of old, who attained final completion, who cut off obstacles, who cut down barriers, who have ended the cycle, who have escaped from all sorrow — that he should remember of these that such was their rank, such were their personal names, such were their family names, such the span of their lives, such their pair of disciples, and such the number of the congregations of their disciples, telling us: — " Of such was the birth of those Exalted Ones, such were their names, and their clans; such were their morals, their doctrines, their wisdom; thus did they live, and thus they gained emancipation." Now, what think you, brother? Has this principle of truth been clearly discerned by the Tathagata, so that by his discernment of it he remembers [all those facts] about the Buddhas of the past? Or have gods revealed this matter to the Tathagata, so that thereby he remembers? '