ཕག་མའ་རྟགས་པ་བརྗད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད notes.22
The Exemplary Tale About a Sow notes.22
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22. We have followed the list as it is given in the Tibetan. In the Sanskrit and Chinese versions, the portent of a bad smell precedes that of sweat. In the related Pali text on the five portents, the Pañcapubbanimittasutta (Iti 76), the fourth portent is that his body becomes lackluster (kāye dubbaṇṇiyam okkamati), and this portent is also mentioned in the Chinese as the first in the list here. The Chinese translation, however, omits the sign of not finding satisfaction in one’s seat, which is vividly described at the start of the following narration.