anupūrvakeśa

anupūrvakeśa Bahuvr. m. (-śaḥ) Whose hairs are grown in per-

fect order; one of the eighty secondary signs or anuvyañjana

q. v. which indicate the ‘great man’, accord. to the Bud-

dhists. E. anupūrva and keśa.

anu-pūrva—keśa mfn. having regular hair, regularly shaped limbs, regular teeth, a regularly shaped navel, regular lines in the hands (all these are epithets given to Buddha, some of them also to Mahāvīra), Buddh. & Jain.