[641] When his mind (citta) is thus concentrated (samādhi), purified, bright, unblemished, rid of imperfections (upakkilesa), malleable, wieldy, steady, and attained to imperturbability, he directs the mind to the knowledge (ñāṇa) of the recollection of past abodes. 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 so named, of such a clan, with such an appearance, such was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain (dukkha), such the end of my life span; passing away from there, I was reborn elsewhere; and there too I was so named, of such a clan, with such an appearance, such was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such the end of my life span; passing away from there, I was reborn here.' Thus, with their aspects and particulars, he recollects his manifold past abodes.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.