Dighanikaya 14.37

14.37

Sabbakāmehīti idaṃ lakkhaṇāni pariggaṇhāpetvā pacchā kataṃ viya vuttaṃ, na panevaṃ daṭṭhabbaṃ. Paṭhamañhi te nemittake santappetvā pacchā lakkhaṇapariggaṇhanaṃ katanti veditabbaṃ. Tassa vitthāro gabbhokkantiyaṃ vuttoyeva. Pāyentīti thaññaṃ pāyenti. Tassa kira niddosena madhurena khīrena samannāgatā saṭṭhi dhātiyo upaṭṭhāpesi, tathā sesāpi tesu tesu kammesu kusalā saṭṭhisaṭṭhiyeva. Tāsaṃ pesanakārake saṭṭhi purise, tassa tassa katākatabhāvaṃ sallakkhaṇe saṭṭhi amacce upaṭṭhāpesi. Evaṃ cattāri saṭṭhiyo itthīnaṃ, dve saṭṭhiyo purisānanti cha saṭṭhiyo upaṭṭhakānaṃyeva ahesuṃ. Setacchattanti dibbasetacchattaṃ. Kuladattiyaṃ pana sirigabbheyeva tiṭṭhati. Mā naṃ sītaṃ vātiādīsu mā abhibhavīti attho veditabbo. Svāssudanti so assudaṃ. Aṅkeneva aṅkanti aññassa bāhunāva aññassa bāhuṃ. Aññassa ca aṃsakūṭeneva aññassa aṃsakūṭaṃ. Parihariyatīti nīyati, sampāpiyatīti attho.

"With all sensual pleasures" (sabbakāmehi) is said as though it were done after having the marks examined, but it should not be seen like that. For it should be understood that, having first satisfied the fortune-tellers, the examination of marks was done afterwards. The full explanation of that was indeed given under the descent into the womb. "They suckle" (pāyenti) means they suckle with mother's milk. For he provided him with sixty wet nurses endowed with flawless, sweet milk; likewise the others, each sixty in number, were skilled in their respective tasks. He provided sixty men as their messengers, and sixty ministers to observe what was done and left undone for him. Thus there were four times sixty women and twice sixty men; there were six times sixty attendants alone. "A white parasol" (setacchattaṃ) means a divine white parasol. But the family heritage parasol remained right in the auspicious chamber. In the phrase "lest cold [reach] him" and so on, the meaning should be understood as: lest it overcome [him]. "Svāssudaṃ" is so assudaṃ. "From lap to lap" (aṅkeneva aṅkaṃ) means from one's arm to another's arm; and from one's shoulder-blade to another's shoulder-blade. "He was carried about" (parihariyati) means he was conveyed, he was brought about.