[286] "But do you, venerable ones, knowing thus and seeing thus, recollect your manifold past abodes (pubbenivāsa) — 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 aeons of world-contraction, many aeons of world-expansion, many aeons of world-contraction and expansion: 'There I was so named, 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 that other place; there too I was so named, 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 arisen here' — do you thus recollect your manifold past abodes with their aspects and particulars?"
"Not so, friend."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.