འཕགས་པ་མར་མ་མཛད་ཀྱས་ལང་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 15

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is a thus-gone, worthy, complete and perfect buddha with the thirty-two marks of a great being, yet only thirty marks appear on this thus-gone one. Since two marks do not appear, he is not endowed with the thirty-two marks.’

“The thus-gone, worthy, complete and perfect Buddha Dīpaṅkara, understanding the thoughts of the brahmin boy Megha, then manifested a display of miraculous power such that those thirty-two marks of a great being appeared—thus did he manifest a display of miraculous power. On seeing this, the brahmin boy Megha was transported with satisfaction and delight. With the rising of great joy and happiness, he spread out a skin, but the residents of the royal city Padmāvatī lifted up the skin, and together they tossed it away. They said to the brahmin boy Megha, ‘Brahmin child, are you crazy? In the place where the king’s robes³⁶ should be placed, you lay out this dirty skin!’

“The brahmin boy Megha picked up the skin and stepped aside from the road. Sitting down on a side path, he spoke these words of truth: ‘By the truth and these words of truth, if the Thus-Gone One, who is all-knowing and all-seeing, has compassion for the world, may he redirect his path and place his feet upon my matted hair.’

“The thus-gone, worthy, complete and perfect Buddha Dīpaṅkara looked behind him and said to the monks, ‘Monks, where I put my two feet, there you must not stand. If you ask why, it is because that is the matted hair of one who has honored many hundreds of sextillions of buddhas.’

“The thus-gone, worthy, complete and perfect