Mahapadanasutta 1.35

1.35

' And when the boy Vipassi was born, brethren, he had a lovelv voice, well modulated and sweet and
1 According to Childers, the Indian cuckoo. The Great Man's voice is very clear and pure-toned, neither worn nor broken nor harsh. Cy. Yoga-culture is to-day held to yield, as one result, a pleasant musical voice.
2 Like flax-blossom. Cy. Perhaps a tradition of Aryan origin.
3 Completely surrounding the eyes, thick like a black cow's; bright and soft like a new-born red calf's. Cy.
4 Unhisa-siso. This expression, says the Cy., refers to the fullness either of the forehead or of the cranium. In either case the rounded highly-developed appearance is meant, giving to the unadorned head the decorative dignified effect of a crested turban, and the smooth symmetry of a water-bubble.
5 In the text this refrain occurs after the naming of each mark.
6 Literally by hip to hip; women passing him from arm to arm, men from one shoulder to another, explains the Cy.
charming, just as the voice of the karavika-bird in the mountains of Himaiaya is lovely and sweetly modulated and charming 1.