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1.12 On birth before touching the earth, four gods support the Baby

Bodhisatta to be in front of the Mother and tell her of being the

Great Power Son.

1.13 The delivery is easy and without any dirty stain.
1.14 On delivery, there are two streams of water from the air, hot and

cold water to clean both the Bodhisatta and the Mother.

1.15 After delivery, the Bodhisatta stands firmly, turning to the north,
walking for 7 steps, looking at all directions and utter majestic

saying “I am the world excellence. I am the world best progress. I

am the world best. This life is the last one, there is no birth for me

anymore.”

1.16 After delivery, there is the unestimated bright miraculous light lit
in all wolrds of gods, evils, and brahmas.

Another Dhamma existing in Section 1 of Mahāpadānasutta that should be

studied is Mahāpurisalakkhaṇasutta (the thirty-two marks of the Great Man of
Vipassī Buddha). If this is studied further, it is confirmed that the thirty-two marks of

the Great Man are true because the evidence can be found in the traditional

Hinduism (Brahmanism) since ancient time. So, it can be concluded that the thirty-

two marks of the Great Man are not made from imagination, not personalized.

Anyone who has accumulated power for certain time can acquire those marks. It is,
then, the phenomena of those who have stored their power for some lives. The

detail of thirty-two marks of the Great Man in Mahāpadānasutta can be summarized

as follows:
Preliminary expression in the Sutta

“When the brahman fortune tellers saw the Baby Vipassī Buddha,

they told the king the thirty-two marks of the Great Man:

Romanized Pāli:

Ayaṃ hi deva kumāro…
English Translation:

This / Lord / the Prince /…

And followed by the thirty-two marks of the Great Man of Baby Vipassī
Buddha concluded as follows: