[135] Formerly, in the past, in his previous births,
born as a human being, he brought happiness to many,
a dispeller of agitation, terror, and fear,
zealous in guarding, in protection and defense.
By that deed he passed on to the threefold heaven (tidiva),
and there enjoyed happiness, sport, and delights;
passing away from there and returning here again,
he finds wheels upon his two feet,
rimmed all around and thousand-spoked.
The interpreters of signs, assembled together,
seeing the prince bearing the marks of a hundred merits,
declared: "He will be endowed with a retinue, a crusher of foes—
for so indeed are the wheels rimmed all around."
If such a one does not take up the going forth (pabbajjā),
he turns the wheel and rules the earth;
here the khattiyas become his vassals;
of great glory, they surround him in attendance.
But if such a one does take up the going forth,
delighting in the desire for renunciation (nekkhamma), clear-sighted,
then gods, humans, asuras, Sakka, and rakkhasas,
gandhabbas, nāgas, birds, and four-footed beings—
of great glory, they surround him in attendance,
the unsurpassed one, honored by gods and humans.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.