[241] **"His former fame and renown also wane"** — What is fame (yasa)? Here, someone formerly, while in the state of an ascetic (samaṇabhāve), was honored, respected, esteemed, worshipped, and revered, and was a gainer of robes, almsfood, lodging, and medicinal requisites for the sick — this is fame.
What is renown (kitti)? Here, someone formerly, while in the state of an ascetic, had his renown and praise proclaimed: as one who is wise, competent, intelligent, of great learning, a brilliant speaker, of excellent inspiration; as "one versed in the Suttantas," or "a bearer of the Vinaya," or "a speaker on the Dhamma," or "a forest-dweller," or "an almsfood-eater," or "a wearer of rag-robes," or "a wearer of only the three robes," or "one who walks for alms without skipping houses," or "one who refuses food offered afterwards," or "one who keeps to the sitting posture," or "one who accepts whatever lodging is assigned"; or as "a gainer of the first jhāna," or "a gainer of the second jhāna," or "a gainer of the third jhāna," or "a gainer of the fourth jhāna," or "a gainer of the attainment (samāpatti) of the sphere of infinity of space (ākāsānañcāyatana)," or "a gainer of the attainment of the sphere of infinity of consciousness (viññāṇañcāyatana)," or "a gainer of the attainment of the sphere of nothingness (ākiñcaññāyatana)," or "a gainer of the attainment of the sphere of neither perception nor non-perception (nevasaññānāsaññāyatana)" — this is renown.
**"His former fame and renown also wane"**: at a later time, when he has disavowed the Buddha, the Dhamma, the Saṅgha, and the training, and has reverted to the lower life, that fame and that renown wane, dwindle away, fall away, collapse, vanish, and disintegrate. Therefore it is said: "His former fame and renown also wane."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.