Majjhimanikaya 2.2.148

2.2.148

Ettha ca kiñcāpi cetopariyañāṇānantaraṃ tisso vijjā vattabbā siyuṃ, yasmā pana tāsu vuttāsu upari dasabalañāṇaṃ na paripūrati, tasmā tā avatvā tathāgatassa dasabalañāṇaṃ paripūraṃ katvā dassento dasa kho panimāni sāriputtātiādimāha. Tattha tathāgatabalānīti aññehi asādhāraṇāni tathāgatasseva balāni. Yathā vā pubbabuddhānaṃ balāni puññussayasampattiyā āgatāni, tathā āgatabalānītipi attho. Tattha duvidhaṃ tathāgatabalaṃ kāyabalañca ñāṇabalañca. Tesu kāyabalaṃ hatthikulānusārena veditabbaṃ. Vuttañhetaṃ porāṇehi –

And here, although the three true knowledges should have been stated immediately after the knowledge of reading others' minds, nevertheless, because if they were stated the knowledge of the ten powers would not be complete further on, therefore, without stating them, showing the Tathāgata's knowledge of the ten powers in its completeness, he spoke the passage beginning with "There are these ten, Sāriputta." In that passage: "the powers of the Tathāgata" are the Tathāgata's own powers, not shared with others. Or the meaning is also: powers that have arrived just as the powers of former Buddhas arrived through the excellence of an accumulation of merit. In that regard, the Tathāgata's power is twofold: physical power and intellectual power. Of these, physical power should be understood in accordance with the elephant breeds. For this was said by the ancients: