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# Lakkhanasutta 1.4: 1. Suppatiṭṭhitapādatālakkhaṇaṃ

Lakkhaṇasutta 1.4

- **Language:** Pāli

### 1. Suppatiṭṭhitapādatālakkhaṇaṃ

### [1.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.30.1.4.1)

Yampi, bhikkhave, tathāgato purimaṃ jātiṃ purimaṃ bhavaṃ purimaṃ niketaṃ pubbe manussabhūto samāno daḷhasamādāno ahosi kusalesu dhammesu, avatthitasamādāno kāyasucarite vacīsucarite manosucarite dānasaṃvibhāge sīlasamādāne uposathupavāse matteyyatāya petteyyatāya sāmaññatāya brahmaññatāya kule jeṭṭhāpacāyitāya aññataraññataresu ca adhikusalesu dhammesu.

> In some past lives, past existences, past abodes the Realized One was reborn as a human being. He firmly and persistently undertook skillful behaviors such as good conduct by way of body, speech, and mind, giving and sharing, taking precepts, observing the sabbath, paying due respect to mother and father, ascetics and brahmins, honoring the elders in the family, and various other things pertaining to skillful behaviors.  
> — The Marks of a Great Man

### [1.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.30.1.4.2)

So tassa kammassa kaṭattā upacitattā ussannattā vipulattā kāyassa bhedā paraṃ maraṇā sugatiṃ saggaṃ lokaṃ upapajjati.

> Due to performing, accumulating, heaping up, and amassing those deeds, when his body broke up, after death, he was reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.  
> — The Marks of a Great Man

### [1.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.30.1.4.3)

So tattha aññe deve dasahi ṭhānehi adhiggaṇhāti dibbena āyunā dibbena vaṇṇena dibbena sukhena dibbena yasena dibbena ādhipateyyena dibbehi rūpehi dibbehi saddehi dibbehi gandhehi dibbehi rasehi dibbehi phoṭṭhabbehi.

> There he surpassed the other gods in ten respects: heavenly lifespan, beauty, happiness, glory, sovereignty, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touches.  
> — The Marks of a Great Man

### [1.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.30.1.4.4)

So tato cuto itthattaṃ āgato samāno imaṃ mahāpurisalakkhaṇaṃ paṭilabhati.

> When he passed away from there and came back to this place he obtained this mark of a great man:  
> — The Marks of a Great Man

### [1.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.30.1.4.5)

Suppatiṭṭhitapādo hoti.

> he has well-planted feet.  
> — The Marks of a Great Man

### [1.4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.30.1.4.6)

Samaṃ pādaṃ bhūmiyaṃ nikkhipati, samaṃ uddharati, samaṃ sabbāvantehi pādatalehi bhūmiṃ phusati.

> He places his foot on the ground evenly, raises it evenly, and touches the ground evenly with the whole sole of his foot.  
> — The Marks of a Great Man

## Translations (3)

- [Govor o obeležjima](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.30~sr-brankokovacevic.1.4.1) — sr
- [The Marks of a Great Man](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.30~en-sujato.1.4.1) — English
- [Die Kennzeichen eines großen Mannes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.30~de-sabbamitta.1.4.1) — German

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.30.201) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

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