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by their assembly of disciples, 'Such was the birth of those Blessed Ones,' he recollects. 'Such were their names, such their clans, such their virtues, such their teachings, such their wisdom, such their abidings, such their liberations, were those Blessed Ones,' he recollects." "Even devas reported this matter to the Tathāgata, whereby the Tathāgata recollected the Buddhas of the past, who have attained final Nibbāna, whose proliferation has been cut off, and..." With the broken-down cycle, with the exhausted cycle, with the transcended cycle of all suffering, he remembers by birth, he remembers by name, he remembers by clan, he remembers by lifespan, he remembers by pairs of disciples, he remembers by assemblies of disciples, 'Of such birth were those Fortunate Ones,' thus. 'Of such name, of such clan, of such virtue, of such Dhamma, of such wisdom, of such dwelling, of such liberation were those Fortunate Ones,' thus. This the Fortunate One said. Delighted, those bhikkhus rejoiced in the Fortunate One's words. The Great Discourse on the Lineage is finished, the first.