[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Āgama sūtras of the mainstream schools](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama) › [Arthaviniścayasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra) › [དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo) › [Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000) › 31 # དན་རྣམ་པར་ངས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་གྲངས 31 Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings 31 - **Language:** English ### [31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.31) 7. “There are seven elevations on his body. 8. “He has antelope shanks. ¹¹⁰ 9. “His secret organ is retracted within a sheath. 10. “The upper half of his body is like a lion’s. 11. “The space between the shoulders is broad. 12. “He has evenly rounded shoulders. 13. “His arms stretch to the knees when he does not bend down. ¹¹¹ 14. “His body is pure. 15. “His neck is like a conch. 16. “He has a lion’s jaw. 17. “He has forty even teeth. 18. “His teeth are even and have no interstices. 19. “He has very white teeth. 20. “He has a long tongue. 21. “Any flavor for him tastes supreme. 22. “His melodious voice is like the melodious voice of Brahmā and like the kalaviṅka’s note. 23. “He has intensely blue eyes. 24. “His eyelashes are like those of a cow. 25. “He has fine skin. 26. “He has golden skin. 27. “He has one hair for each pore. 28. “Each bodily hair points upward and turns to the right. 29. “The hair on his head is like sapphire. 30. “He has a very white ūrṇā on his forehead, the part of the face between the brows. 31. “He bears the uṣṇīṣa on his head. 32. “He has the mark of a great person that consists in his body’s girth being like a banyan tree and all-around pleasant. “These are the thirty-two marks of a great person. 1. “He has well-placed feet: this mark of a great person has come about because in the past the Tathāgata, the great person, pursued his undertakings with a firm resolve. 2. “The two soles of his feet are marked by a wheel: this mark of a great person has come about because in the past the Tathāgata, the great person, accumulated manifold acts of generosity. 3. “He has broad heels and prominent ankles: this mark of a great person has come about because in the past the Tathāgata, the great person, did not intimidate other sentient beings. 4. “He has long fingers: this mark of a great person has come about because in the past the Tathāgata, the great person, protected, sheltered, and guarded the Dharma for sentient beings. - [Previous: 30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.30) - [Next: 32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.32) ## Linked texts (1) - [དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo.31) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.31) · Pramāṇa