[48] When my mind (citta) was thus concentrated (samādhi) — purified, bright, unblemished, rid of defilements (upakkilesa), malleable, wieldy, steady, and attained to imperturbability — I directed it to the knowledge (ñāṇa) of the recollection of past abodes (pubbenivāsānussatiñāṇa). I recollected my manifold past abodes, that is: one birth (jāti), two births, three births, four births, five births, ten births, twenty births, thirty births, forty births, fifty births, a hundred births, a thousand births, a hundred thousand births; many eons of world-contraction, many eons of world-expansion, many eons of world-contraction and expansion: 'There I was so named, of such a clan, of such an appearance, with such food, experiencing such pleasure and pain, with such a life-span; and passing away from there, I arose in such a place; there too I was so named, of such a clan, of such an appearance, with such food, experiencing such pleasure and pain, with such a life-span; and passing away from there, I arose here.' Thus I recollected my manifold past abodes with their aspects and particulars. This, brahmin, was the first true knowledge (vijjā) attained by me in the first watch of the night: ignorance (avijjā) was dispelled and true knowledge arose; darkness was dispelled and light arose, as it happens for one who dwells diligent, ardent, and resolute.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.