[639] "Just now, friend, as I was descending from Mount Gijjhakūṭa, I saw a skeleton moving through the air. Vultures, crows, and hawks, swooping down upon it again and again, pecked at it, tore at it, and pulled it to pieces; and it, it is said, uttered cries of distress. Then, friend, it occurred to me: 'How wonderful indeed! How astounding indeed! That there should be such a being (satta), that there should be such a yakkha, that there should be such an acquisition of individual existence (attabhāvapaṭilābha)!'"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.