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texts. Hence the list of the anuvyañjanas is not found. It is mostly in the later Pali commentaries that the references to anuvyañ janas are given. 10 The Mahāyāna texts, on the other hand, are full of references to the list of laksanas and anuvyañjanas along with their explanations. !!
Along with the theory of the mahāpuruşalaksanas and anuvyañjanas (minor physical marks), as stated above, is associated the concept of the reward of meritorious deeds which produce the special marks of a great man on the person of the Buddha. It is by constant performance of various kušala or punya karmas during many kalpas that a Buddha comes to possess the special marks. According to the Mahāyāna, Buddha's body, called sambhogakāya (body of enjoyment or bliss) is always radiant and glorious and bears thirty-two special marks and eighty minor signs. It is the result of past meritorious actions but it is visible only to the faithful bodhisattvas who assemble to hear a Buddha preach his sermon. 12
Har Dayal is of the opinion that the sambhogakāya was added subsequently to the dhar makāya in order to give the Buddhas something like celestial abodes of Hindu devas. It belongs to the stage of deification, not to that of spiritualisation and unification 18.
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Cf. Mohāpadāna-sutta, DN. Vol. II, pp. 15 ff; Brahmayu-sutta, MN. Vol. II, pp. 384 ff. These suttas are apart from the Lakkhana-sutta mentioned above. References to anuvyañjanas are found mostly in Commentaries (atthakathâs). Cf. Sumangalavilāsini, Vol. III, p. 246 (Nalanda ed.), Udānatthakathā (PTS ed.), p. 87. Also see Milindapañha (Bombay Devanagari ed.), p. 78. It is only in Milinda-tikā (PTS), pp. 17-18 that the list of 80 unuvyañjanas is found. There is also reference to the fact that the list is found only in the Jinalankāra-tika and the author of the Milinda-tikā has borrowed it from the same. See p. 17, ibid. See fn, no. 3, above. Cf. Har Dayal, The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature, p. 27. Also cf. Mahāyānasūtralańkära, (Darbhanga ed.), p. 180. Har Dayal, loc. cit.
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