太子瑞應本起經 1.15

1.15

"The queen immediately wrapped him in white undergarments, and a wet-nurse held and nurtured him, giving him the name Siddhārtha. The king told the queen: 'The child born is extraordinary. In our state there is a practitioner of the Way named Asita, over a hundred years old, an elder of vast knowledge who is thoroughly versed in the method of physiognomy; may we now go together to have him examine the child's marks?' The queen said: 'Splendid!' They immediately harnessed white elephants, preceded and followed by musicians, and set out to visit the practitioner of the Way, offering him a bag each of yellow gold and white silver, but the practitioner of the Way would not accept them. Opening the undergarments, he examined the prince's marks and saw that he possessed the thirty-two marks: his body was golden; upon his crown was a fleshy protuberance; his hair was dark blue; between his brows was a white ūrṇā curl; behind his neck was a circle of light; his eyes were deep blue, blinking simultaneously above and below; in his mouth were forty teeth, white, even, and flat; his jaw was square and broad; his long tongue could touch seven places; he was full-chested like a lion; his body was upright and straight; his arms were long and his fingers slender; his heels were full and his soles flat and steady; he could grasp inwards and outwards with his hands; his palms and fingers were webbed; the thousand-spoked wheel markings were on his soles; his genitalia were retracted like a horse's; his calves were like an antelope's; his bones were interlocked like links of a chain; his body hairs curled to the right; from each hair-pore a single hair grew; his skin and hairs were delicate and soft, repelling dust and water; and upon his chest was a svastika. When Asita saw this, his sighs redoubled and tears flowed, so grieved that he could not speak."} ], "glossary": [ {"term": "賢劫", "en": "Bhadrakalpa"}, {"term": "悉達", "en": "Siddhārtha"}, {"term": "阿夷", "en": "Asita"}, {"term": "沸星", "en": "Puṣya"}, {"term": "賢鑒寶", "en": "wise-minister treasure"}, {"term": "聖導寶", "en": "holy-leader treasure"}, {"term": "交露車", "en": "open-canopied carriage"}, {"term": "万字", "en": "svastika"} ]}