[162] Eight doṇa-measures (doṇa) were the relics of the One with Vision (cakkhumant):
seven doṇas they honor in Jambudīpa,
and one doṇa of the supreme, highest of men
the nāga kings honor at Rāmagāma.
One tooth, indeed, is worshipped by the gods of the Tidiva heaven (the Thirty-three);
one, moreover, is honored in the city of Gandhāra;
another in the realm of the Kāliṅga king;
and yet one more the nāga kings honor.
Through the very splendor of that [relic-body], this treasure-bearing earth,
the great ground, is adorned with the finest shrines of offering;
thus this body of the One with Vision
is well honored by those who are themselves most highly honored.
Worshipped by lords of gods, lords of nāgas, and lords of men,
worshipped likewise by the best among lords of humankind—
venerate it, each such [relic], with palms joined in reverence;
for truly, Buddhas are rarely met with even in a hundred eons.
The forty even teeth, and the hair of the head
and the hair of the body, one and all—
the deities carried them away, one by one,
in succession from world-system to world-system.
The Mahāparinibbāna Sutta, the third, is finished.
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Mahāsudassana Sutta
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.