ཞེས་ལུང་སྟོན་པ་མཐོང་ངོ་། ། ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དེ་ལྟར་བྲམ་ཟེའི་ཁྱེའུ་སྤྲིན་ལུང་བསྟན་པ་ཐོས་ནས་དབུགས་ཕྱིན་པར་གྱུར་ཏེ། ནམ་མཁའི་དཀྱིལ་དེ་ནས་བབས་ནས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་མར་མེ་མཛད་དེའི་དྲུང་དུ། དད་པས་ཁྱིམ་ནས་ཁྱིམ་མེད་པར་རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་སྟེ། ཚངས་པར་སྤྱད་པ་སྤྱོད་དོ། །
“He directly perceived a hundred thousand million billion indescribable concentrations. By means of the power and knowledge of his superior abilities, he could see that to the east there were many more lords, buddhas, than there are grains of sand in the river Ganges, who were making the prediction, ‘Innumerable eons in the future, young brahmin, you will become a tathāgata, arhat, fully accomplished buddha by the name of Śākyamuni.’ Likewise, to the south, the west, the north, the northeast, the southeast, the southwest, and the northwest, above and below, throughout the ten directions of space, there were many more lords, buddhas than there are grains of sand in the river Ganges, who were making the prediction, ‘Innumerable eons in the future, young brahmin, you will become a tathāgata, arhat, fully accomplished buddha by the name of Śākyamuni.’
Buddhism, Enlightenment, Ānanda