§ 24.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "If a single person were to wander & transmigrate on for an aeon, he/she would leave behind a chain of bones, a pile of bones, a heap of bones, as large as this Mount Vepulla, if there were someone to collect them and the collection were not destroyed."

The accumulation
of a single person's
bones for an aeon
would be a heap
on a par with the mountain,
so said the Great Seer.
    (He declared this to be
    the great Mount Vepulla
    to the north of Vulture's Peak
    in the mountain-ring
    of the Magadhans.)^*
But when that person sees
with right discernment
the four Noble Truths --
    stress,
    the cause of stress,
    the transcending of stress,
    & the Noble Eightfold Path,
    the way to the stilling of stress --
having wandered on
seven times at most, then,
    with the ending of all fetters,
        he puts a stop
        to stress.