[584] Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was wandering on tour among the Videhans together with a large Saṅgha of bhikkhus (bhikkhu), some five hundred bhikkhus. Now on that occasion the brahmin Brahmāyu was residing at Mithilā — old, aged, elderly, advanced in years, come to the last stage of life, one hundred and twenty years from birth; a master of the Three Vedas together with the vocabularies (nighaṇḍu) and the rituals (keṭubha), with the phonology and word-analysis, and with the histories (itihāsa) as the fifth; skilled in the texts word by word, versed in grammar, fully accomplished in cosmology (lokāyata) and in the marks of a Great Man.
The brahmin Brahmāyu heard: "Indeed, sirs, the ascetic Gotama, the son of the Sakyans, gone forth from a Sakyan family, is wandering on tour among the Videhans together with a large Saṅgha of bhikkhus, some five hundred bhikkhus. And concerning that worthy Gotama such a fair report of fame has spread abroad: 'Thus indeed is that Blessed One: an arahant, a Fully Awakened One, accomplished in true knowledge (vijjā) and conduct, a Sublime One, knower of the world, unsurpassed charioteer of persons to be tamed, teacher of gods and humans, awakened, blessed. Having realized it himself with direct knowledge, he makes known this world with its gods, with its Māras, with its Brahmās, this generation with its ascetics and brahmins, with its gods and humans. He teaches the Dhamma that is good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, with its meaning and its phrasing; he reveals the holy life (brahmacariya) that is entirely complete and pure. Good indeed is the sight of such arahants.'"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.