[15] When his mind (citta) is thus concentrated (samādhi), purified, bright, unblemished, rid of corruptions, malleable, wieldy, steady, and attained to imperturbability, he directs and inclines the mind to the knowledge of the recollection of past abodes (pubbenivāsānussatiñāṇa). He recollects his 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 of such a name, of such a clan, of such an appearance, such was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such the limit of my life-span; passing away from there, I arose in such a place; there too I was of such a name, of such a clan, of such an appearance, such was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such the limit of my life-span; passing away from there, I have been reborn here.' Thus with its aspects and particulars he recollects his manifold past abodes.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.