[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) › [Other mainstream sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other) › [Dīrghanakhaparivrājakaparipṛcchā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha) › [ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ་བ་སེན་རིངས་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo) › [The Questions of Dirghanakha the Wandering Mendicant](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000) › intro.2 # ཀན་ཏ་རྒྱ་བ་སན་རངས་ཀྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད intro.2 The Questions of Dīrghanakha the Wandering Mendicant intro.2 - **Language:** English ### [intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.intro.2) The Questions of Dīrghanakha the Wandering Mendicant takes place on Vulture Peak Mountain in Rājagṛha. As the Buddha teaches the Dharma to the fourfold saṅgha, the brahmin and wandering mendicant Dīrghanakha approaches and interrogates the Buddha, in somewhat irreverent tones, about his teaching that actions dependably produce particular effects in the world. He then poses a series of ten questions regarding the karmic causes of certain attributes of the Buddha. These questions refer to the Buddha’s (1) vajra body, (2) long and webbed fingers, (3) complete faculties and fully developed body, (4) tongue that covers his face, (5) lion’s gait, (6) forty even and white teeth, (7) fragrance of moral discipline, (8) thirty-two signs, (9) three seats, and (10) raised uṣṇīṣa on his crown. The Buddha responds to each question by identifying the cause for each attribute, roughly summing up the eight poṣadha vows and the ways he observed them in the past. He also mentions his previous offerings and devotion to the Three Jewels and to his parents, preceptors, scholars, gurus, and other worthy ones. At this point, Dīrghanakha drops his staff and bows to the Buddha, pledging three times to take refuge in the Three Jewels and to maintain continuously and correctly the eight poṣadha vows in the manner of the arhats. - [Previous: intro.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.intro.1) - [Next: intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.intro.3) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.intro.2) · Pramāṇa