The eighty minor characteristics are:
- He has beautiful fingers and toes.
- He has well-proportioned fingers and toes.
- He has tube-shaped fingers and toes.
- His fingernails and toenails have a rosy tint.
- His fingernails and toenails are slightly upturned at the tip.
- His fingernails and toenails are smooth and rounded without ridges.
- His ankles and wrists are rounded and undented.
- His feet are of equal length.
- He has a beautiful gait, like that of a king-elephant.
- He has a stately gait, like that of a king-lion.
- He has a beautiful gait, like that of a swan.
- He has a majestic gait, like that of a royal ox.
- His right foot leads when walking.
- His knees have no protruding kneecaps.
- He has the demeanor of a great man.
- His navel is without blemish.
- He has a deep-shaped abdomen.
- He has clockwise marks on the abdomen.
- His thighs are rounded like banana sheaves.
- His two arms are shaped like an elephant's trunk.
- The lines on the palms of his hands have a rosy tint.
- His skin is thick or thin as it should be.
- His skin is unwrinkled.
- His body is spotless and without lumps.
- His body is unblemished above and below.
- His body is absolutely free of impurities.
- He has the strength of 1,000 crore elephants or 100,000 crore men.
- He has a protruding nose.
- His nose is well proportioned.
- His upper and lower lips are equal in size and have a rosy tint.
- His teeth are unblemished and with no plaque.
- His teeth are long like polished conches.
- His teeth are smooth and without ridges.
- His five sense-organs are unblemished.
- His four canine teeth are crystal and rounded.
- His face is long and beautiful.
- His cheeks are radiant.
- The lines on his palms are deep.
- The lines on his palms are long.
- The lines on his palms are straight.
- The lines on his palms have a rosy tint.
- His body emanates a halo of light extending around him for two meters.
- His cheek cavities are fully rounded and smooth.
- His eyelids are well proportioned.
- The five nerves of his eyes are unblemished.
- The tips of his bodily hair are neither curved nor bent.
- He has a rounded tongue.
- His tongue is soft and has a rosy-tint.
- His ears are long like lotus petals.
- His earholes are beautifully rounded.
- His sinews and tendons don't stick out.
- His sinews and tendons are deeply embedded in the flesh.
- His topknot is like a crown.
- His forehead is well-proportioned in length and breadth.
- His forehead is rounded and beautiful.
- His eyebrows are arched like a bow.
- The hair of his eyebrows is fine.
- The hair of his eyebrows lies flat.
- He has large brows.
- His brows reach the outward corner of his eyes.
- His skin is fine throughout his body.
- His whole body has abundant signs of good fortune.
- His body is always radiant.
- His body is always refreshed like a lotus flower.
- His body is exquisitely sensitive to touch.
- His body has the scent of sandalwood.
- His body hair is consistent in length.
- He has fine bodily hair.
- His breath is always fine.
- His mouth always has a beautiful smile.
- His mouth has the scent of a lotus flower.
- His hair has the colour of a dark shadow.
- His hair is strongly scented.
- His hair has the scent of a white lotus.
- He has curled hair.
- His hair does not turn grey.
- He has fine hair.
- His hair is untangled.
- His hair has long curls. (Buddha may be interpreted as being bald)
- He has a topknot as if crowned with a royal flower garland.
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