4👑☸ Cattāri Ariya-saccaṃ 四聖諦

6ab → 4♾️🏠 aneka-vihitaṃ pubbe-nivāsaṃ

many-instances (of) previous-abodes-[lives]


4👑☸6ab ⚡☸ 4⚡♾️🏠     🔗📝     🔝
aneka-vihitaṃ pubbe-nivāsaṃ
many-instances (of) previous-abodes-[lives]
anus-sarati,
(he) recollects,
seyyathidaṃ –
like-this -
ekampi jātiṃ dvepi jātiyo tissopi jātiyo catassopi jātiyo pañcapi jātiyo
one birth, two births, three births, four births, five births,
dasapi jātiyo vīsampi jātiyo tiṃsampi jātiyo cattālīsampi jātiyo paññāsampi jātiyo
ten births, twenty births, thirty births, forty births, fifty births,
jāti-satampi jāti-sahassampi jāti-sata-sahassampi
one hundred births, one thousand births, one hundred thousand births,
anekepi saṃvaṭṭa-kappe
many contractions-(of cosmic)-aeons,
anekepi vivaṭṭa-kappe
many expansions-(of cosmic)-aeons,
anekepi saṃvaṭṭa-vivaṭṭa-kappe –
many contractions-&-expansions-(of cosmic)-aeons, [recollecting],
‘amutrāsiṃ
There
evaṃ-nāmo evaṃ-gotto
(I had) such-(a)-name, such-(a)-clan,
evaṃ-vaṇṇo evam-āhāro
such-(an)-appearance, such-(was my)-food,
evaṃ-sukha-dukkhap-paṭisaṃvedī
such-pleasure-(and)-pain-(I)-experienced,
evam-āyu-pariyanto,
such-(my)-age-limit [expired].
so tato cuto
he, (from) that-state, passed-away,
amutra udapādiṃ [uppādiṃ (sī.)];
there, (re)-arose.
tatrāpāsiṃ
There too
evaṃ-nāmo evaṃ-gotto
(I had) such-(a)-name, such-(a)-clan,
evaṃ-vaṇṇo evam-āhāro
such-(an)-appearance, such-(was my)-food,
evaṃ-sukha-dukkhap-paṭisaṃvedī
such-pleasure-(and)-pain-(I)-experienced,
evam-āyu-pariyanto,
such-(my)-age-limit [expired].
so tato cuto
he, (from) that-state, passed-away,
idhū-(u)papanno’ti.
here, (re)-arose
Iti sākāraṃ sa-uddesaṃ
thus (with its) characteristics (and) details
aneka-vihitaṃ pubbe-nivāsaṃ
many-instances (of) previous-abodes-[lives]
anus-sarati,
(he) recollects,

Vimutti-magga

Chapter 9 on 6ab also offers valuable commentary not found in EBT. 

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