“Mendicants, in some past lives the Realized One was reborn as a human being. He refrained from talking nonsense. His words were timely, true, and meaningful, in line with the teaching and training. He said things at the right time which were valuable, reasonable, succinct, and beneficial. Due to performing those deeds he was reborn in a heavenly realm. When he came back to this state of existence he obtained this mark: his jaw is like that of a lion.

Possessing this mark, if he stays at home he becomes a wheel-turning monarch. And what does he obtain as king? He can’t be destroyed by any human foe or enemy. That’s what he obtains as king. And what does he obtain as Buddha? He can’t be destroyed by any foe or enemy whether internal or external; nor by greed, hate, or delusion; nor by any ascetic or brahmin or god or Māra or Brahmā or by anyone in the world. That’s what he obtains as Buddha.” That is what the Buddha said.

On this it is said:

“Neither nonsensical nor silly,
his way of speaking was never loose.
He eliminated what was useless,
and spoke for the welfare and happiness of the people.

So doing he passed from here to be reborn in heaven,
where he enjoyed the fruit of deeds well done.
Passing away, on his return to here,
he gained a jaw like the finest of beasts.

He became a king so very hard to defeat,
a mighty lord and ruler of men.
He was equal to the best in the city of the Three and Thirty,
like Inda, the finest of gods.

One such as that is not easily beaten by fairies,
demons, spirits, monsters, or gods.
If he becomes of such a kind,
he illuminates the quarters and in-between.”