| Items marked * indicate those commonly seen on Buddha images. Those marked # indicate sometimes seen. The remainder (can) appear in different stylistic guises according to different cultures and fashions. | ||
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1
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His feet have level tread. | |
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*
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2
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On the soles of his feet are wheels with a thousand spokes, complete with felloe and hub, |
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#
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3
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He has projecting heels, |
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#
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4
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He has long fingers and toes, |
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5
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He has soft and tender hands and feet, | |
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#
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6
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His hands and feet are net-like, [see: Sarnath image] |
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7
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He has high-raised ankles, | |
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8
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His legs are like an antelope's, | |
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#
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9
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Standing and without bending, he can touch and rub his knees with either hand, [see: Walking images] |
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10
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His male organs are enclosed in a sheath, | |
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*
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11
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His complexion is bright, the colour of gold, |
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12
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His skin is delicate and so smooth that no dust can adhere to his body, [hence the 'wet-look' robe style?] |
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13
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His body-hairs are separate, one to each pore, | |
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*
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14
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His body-hairs grow upwards, each one bluish-black like collyrium, curling in rings to the right, [the origin of the 'snail-shell' ushinisha?] |
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15
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His body is divinely straight, | |
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16
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He has the seven convex surfaces, | |
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#
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17
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The front part of his body is like a lion's, |
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18
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There is no hollow between his shoulders, | |
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19
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He is proportioned like a banyan-tree: the height of his body is the same as the span of his out-stretched arms, and conversely, | |
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#
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20
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His chest is evenly rounded, |
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21
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He has a perfect sense of taste, | |
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22
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He has jaws like a lion's, | |
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23
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He has forty teeth, | |
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24
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His teeth are even, | |
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25
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There are no spaces between his teeth, | |
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26
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His canine teeth are very bright, | |
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27
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His tongue is very long, | |
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28
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He has a Brahma-like voice, like that of the karavika bird, [see Burma for pic] | |
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29
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His eyes are deep blue, | |
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30
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He has eyelashes like a cow's, | |
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*
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31
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He has a whorl of hair between his eyes, white and soft like cotton-down, [this is the urna] |
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*
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32
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His head is like a royal turban. [the ushinisha] |
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D. 30: 441
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