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    Mahapurusa Achyutananda Dasa (Odia:-ଅଚ୍ୟୁତାନନ୍ଦ ଦାସ ) was a 16th-century poet seer and Vaishnava saint from Odisha, India. He was considered to have the...
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  • thought to be a whorl of hair and be a mark or sign of the Buddha as a mahāpuruṣa or great being.[citation needed] The device is often seen on sculptures...
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    regarded as having the Thirty-two Characteristics of a Great Man (Skt. mahāpuruṣa lakṣaṇa). These thirty-two characteristics are also regarded as being...
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    physical characteristics, known as "the 32 Signs of the Great Man" (Skt. mahāpuruṣa lakṣaṇa). According to Anālayo, when they first appear in the Buddhist...
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  • Orissa like Panchasakha. He was popularly known as twelfth incarnation of Mahapurusa Achutananda Das a great saint of Nemalabata. Orissa (India) (1966). Orissa...
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    characteristics of the Buddha called "the signs of a great man" (Skt. mahāpuruṣa lakṣaṇa). Some of the most obvious features which can be found in many...
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    (DN 2).[citation needed] In the Mahāmeghasūtra Devadatta is called a mahāpuruṣa (great being). In Faxian's account, after meeting failure his attempts...
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    ELEVEN Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto 12, SB 12.11: Summary Description of the Mahāpuruṣa (11-12) Śivapurāṇa 2.3.43, The Shiva Purana by J. L. Shastri, Chapter...
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    and greater Puranas, and the eighteen major Puranas Description of the Mahapurusa Summary and glories of the Srimad Bhagavatam SB 12.13.11–12 original Sanskrit:...
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  • vāsudevāya om jitam te puṇḍarīkākṣa namaste viśvabhāvana namaste 'stu hṛṣīkeśa mahāpuruṣa pūrvaja Phalashruti Jacobsen, Knut A.; Aktor, Mikael; Myrvold, Kristina...
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    family. The term purusa is claimed to be derived from the honorific title Mahapurusa, usually applied to Sankardev. Bardowa satra founded by Sankardev remained...
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    what is termed the thirty two “physical characteristics of a great man” (mahapurusa-laksana), which are found only in Buddhas and in universal monarchs and...
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    ISBN 8178221144, Section 20 Bollée, Willem. "Physical Aspects of Some Mahāpuruṣas Descent, Foetality, Birth." Wiener Zeitschrift für Die Kunde Südasiens...
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  • S2CID 154350212. The Eleventh Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam describes Lord Mahāpuruṣa: bhūtair yadā pañcabhir ātma-sṛṣṭaiḥ puraṁ virājaṁ viracayya tasmin svāṁśena...
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    Essence that Devadatta and his schismatic followers are truly bodhisattva mahāpuruṣas (great beings) and that their actions were a display of skillful means...
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    and recognised the "Thirty-two Characteristics of a Great Man" (Skt. mahāpuruṣa lakṣaṇa). He prophesied that the baby would grow up to be a buddha, then...
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  • relate to the marks of perfection of the Buddha's body / speech (Skt. mahāpuruṣa, lit. [signs of] "a great person"). In the Heian period, Buddhist poetry...
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