The Bodhisatta was once an ascetic and, at the moment of his death, answered his disciples' inquiries with the words "moonlight and sunlight." When his chief pupil (identified with Sáriputta) interpreted the words, his colleagues did not believe him until the Bodhisatta appeared in mid-air and said that whoever meditated on the sun and the moon would be born in the Ábhassara world (J.i.474).
The Játaka was preached about the interpretation of a problem by Sáriputta at the gates of Sankassa.