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30. The eyes are as pleasant as the calf’s.

31. Hair between the eyebrows is white and as soft as kapok padding.
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32. Head looks like decorated with face frame.

The above ordinary law of Bodhisatta quality that included 16 qualities and
the thirty-two marks of the Great Man explained in Mahāpadānasutta, Section 1,

besides, those who study, as well gain the knowledge of the righteous emperor

characteristics. One with those qualities possesses 7 excellent properties: excellent
happy state (Cakka), excellent elephants, excellent horses, excellent gems, excellent

woman, excellent household head, and excellent leaders. Those imply possession of

excellent objects and people.

2. In section 2 of the Sutta, the essence of content to be observed is related

to the detailed telling on “Going Forth” of Vipassī Buddha. The Fortunate
One explained what were the Four Divine Messengers (Devadūta) who

convinced Him to go forth. Those were a decay person, a sick person, a

dead person, and an ascetic, being seen for the first time.
Also, an information about member counting and mathematic figures can

be perceived, especially the number 84,000 that is well known for

Buddhists.

Concerning the details on Enlightenment of Vipassī Buddha, told by the

Buddha, we learn that the Dhamma of “Law of Causation”
(Paṭiccasamuppāda) is explained. The Buddha began to tell about the

present Dhamma (Law) that decay and death lead to the origination of

causation. From the Buddha’s enlightened wisdom, the explanation
covered “When there is birth, decay and death exist; because there is

birth, that is why there are decay and death.” The Buddha then further

explained the concluded thought that:

Romanized Pāli:

“Atha kho bhikkhave vipassissa bodhisattassa etadahosi”
“kiṃhi nu kho sati jarāmaraṇaṃ hoti?”

“kiṃ paccayā jarāmaraṇaṃ hoti”

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With the knowledge on the thirty-two marks of the Great Man, inspires the Buddha image molder
to apply when create the Buddha images and Buddha footprints, etc.