The History of Buddhist Thought c19.42

c19.42

Another incident connected with his birth is the list of the thirty-two auspicious marks on the body. These are given in several suttas. They are said to indicate that their owner will become either a universal king or a Buddha, and they are evidently a case of the widely spread art of fortune-telling by bodily marks, *angavijjā*, which is deprecated in the *Brahmajāla-sutta*.