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great man
a great man
<b> <c c="#a00149">Mahāpurisa</c> </b> <br>The name given to a Great Being, destined to become either a Cakkavatti or a Buddha. He carries on his person the following thirty two marks. <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.ii.17f.</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.iii.142ff.</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">MN.ii.136f.</c> .<br>he has feet of level tread; on his soles are marks of wheels with spokes, felloes and hubs; his heels project; his digits are long; his hands and feet are soft; his fingers and toes straight; his ankles like rounded shells; his legs like an antelope’s; standing, he can touch his knees without bending; his privacies are within a sheath; he is of golden hue; his skin so smooth that no dust clings to it; the down on his body forms single hairs; each hair is straight, blue black and at the top curls to the right; his frame is straight; his body has seven convex surfaces; his chest is like a lion’s; his back flat between the shoulders; the span of his arms is the same as his height;his bust is equally rounded; his taste is consummate; he has a lion’s jaws; has forty teeth, which are; regular;continuous; and lustrous; his tongue is long; his voice like that of a karavīkā bird; his eyes intensely black; his eyelashes like a cows; between his eyelashes are soft, white hairs like cotton down; his head is like a turban.The theory of Mahāpurisa is attibuted in the Buddhist texts to the brahmins, although no such theory has been found in Brahmanical texts. <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.i.89</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.i.114</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.i.120</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.i.163</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">MN.ii.136</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.i.891</c> <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.i.893</c> In the Lakkhaṇa Sutta, <c c="#3b6bd3">DN.iii.142ff.</c> however, an extensive description is given as to how these marks are brought about by kamma.<br>Apart from these legendary beliefs, the Buddha had his own theory of the attributes of a Mahāpurisa as explained in the Mahāpurisa Sutta <c c="#3b6bd3">SN.v.158</c> and the Vassakāra Sutta. <c c="#3b6bd3">AN.ii.35f.</c> <br> Bāvarī had three Mahāpurisalakkhaṇā; he could touch his forehead with his tongue, he had a mole between his eyebrows, and his privacies were contained within a sheath. SN.1022.<br> <br> </deftext>
(masc, masc, comp) great man; illustrious being great man Construction: mahā + purisa