[723] The Blessed One saw the Venerable Mahākappina coming in the distance. Having seen him, he addressed the bhikkhus: "Bhikkhus, do you see that bhikkhu coming—fair-skinned, thin, with a prominent nose?"
"Yes, venerable sir."
"That bhikkhu, bhikkhus, is of great spiritual power (mahiddhika), of great might. It is not easy to find a meditative attainment (samāpatti) that has not already been attained by that bhikkhu. And he dwells having realized for himself with direct knowledge, in this very life, that unsurpassed culmination of the holy life (brahmacariya) for the sake of which clansmen rightly go forth from the household life into homelessness, having entered upon it."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.