[434] "What do you think, friend Kaccāna? When one bhikkhu abides having pervaded and resolved upon an area as far as two or three great kingdoms as 'exalted (mahaggata)', and when another bhikkhu abides having pervaded and resolved upon the earth bounded by the ocean as 'exalted' — of these two developments of mind (cittabhāvanā), which development of mind is the more exalted?"
"Venerable sir, the bhikkhu who abides having pervaded and resolved upon the earth bounded by the ocean as 'exalted' — of these two developments of mind, this development of mind is the more exalted."
"This, friend Kaccāna, is the cause, this is the condition, why, among those deities who have arisen in a single order of deities (devanikāya), some deities there are of limited radiance (parittābhā), while some deities there are of measureless radiance (appamāṇābhā)."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.