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    See also anuvyañjanam.


    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 104, col. 1.
    anuvyañjana Tatpur. n. (-nam) A secondary mark; (the Bud-

    dhists hold that there are 80 secondary marks of beauty,

    besides the 32 principal marks or lakṣaṇa, which characterize

    a great man). E. anu and vyañjana.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    p. 39, col. 3.
    anuvyañjana anu-vyañjana, am, n. a secon-

    dary mark or token.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    p. 39, col. 1.
    anu-vyañjana n. a secondary mark or token, Buddh.

    Burnouf Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français

    p. 26, col. 2.
    anuvyañjana anuvyañjana n. (añj) Bd. un des 80 signes secondaires (lakṣaṇa) d'un homme supérieur.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 1, p. 221.
    anuvyañjana (1. anu + vyañjana) n. ein secundäres Merkmal BURN. Lot. de la b. l. 583.
    vol. 5, p. 992.
    anuvyañjana vgl. noch Lot. de la b. l. 617.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    vol. 1, p. 57, col. 2.
    anuvyañjana n. ein secundäres Merkmal (buddh.) LALIT. 114,10.

    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 34, col. 1.
    anuvyañjana , nt. (= Pali id.), erroneously written

    °cana SP 62.3 (WT em.), minor or secondary characteristic,

    of things in general, associated with nimitta, q.v.; the

    Buddha (or a Bodhisattva) is neither nimitta-grāhin nor

    anuvyañjana-grāhin (Pali °gāhi), Mv iii.52.6, 12; Śikṣ

    357.2; also, specifically, one of the 80 minor marks or

    characteristics of a mahāpuruṣa, esp. a Buddha: SP 259.4;

    264.3; LV 34.21; 100.2; 103.12; 270.17--18; 428.4; Mv i.38.

    14; 50.3; 237.8; 335.12; ii.38.16; Divy 46.29; 75.3; Av

    i.18.1. Lists are given LV 106.11 ff.; Mv ii.43.8 ff.; Mvy

    268 ff.; Dharmas 84; a Pali list cited by Burnouf, Lotus

    App. VIII, 2, from the Dharmapradīpikā; this I have been

    able to use only at second-hand, from Burnouf. (In Bbh

    376.11 ff. a wholly discordant list which consists simply of

    80 parts of the body.) From the five lists above mentioned

    I have tried to reconstruct, as well as possible, what may

    have been the original list; some items are conjectural. In

    order, the Pali list is quite close to Mvy and Dharmas; Mv is

    not too remote from it; LV is radically shifted in order. In

    my list I cite adjectival forms (applied to the Buddha), as in

    Mvy; some texts add -tā, making abstract nouns: 1.

    (ā)tāmra-nakha; 2. snigdha-n°; 3. tuṅga-n°; 4. vṛttāṅguli;

    5. anupūrvāṅguli; 6. citāṅguli; 7. (ni-)gūḍha-śira (veins);

    8. nirgranthi-ś°; 9. gūḍha-gulpha; 10. aviṣama-pāda; 11

    siṃha-vikrānta-gāmin; 12. nāga-v°-g°; 13. haṃsa-v°-g°;

    14. vṛṣabha-v°-g°; 15. pradakṣiṇāvarta-gāmin; 16. cāru-g°;

    17. avakra-g°; 18. vṛtta-gātra; 19. mṛṣṭa-g°; 20. anupūrva-

    g°; 21. śuci-g°; 22. mṛdu-g°; 23. viśuddha-g°; 24. paripūrṇa-

    vyañjana (sex organs complete); 25. pṛthu-cāru-jānu-maṇ-

    ḍala; 26. sama-krama; 27. sukumāra-gātra; 28. adīna-g°;

    29. (?) anutsanna-g°; 30. susaṃhata-g°; 31. suvibhaktāṅga-

    pratyaṅga; 32. (?) vitimira-viśuddhāloka; 33. vṛtta-kukṣi;

    34. mṛṣṭa-k°; 35. abhugna-k°; 36. (?) kṣāmodara; 37. gam-

    bhīra-nābhi; 38. (pra-)dakṣiṇāvarta-nābhi; 39. samanta-

    prāsādika; 40. śuci-samācāra; 41. vyapagata-tila-kālaka-

    gātra; 42. tūla-(?)sadṛśa-sukumāra-pāṇi; 43. snigdha-

    pāṇilekha; 44. gambhīra-p°; 45. āyata-p°; 46. (? bimba-

    prati)-bimboṣṭha; 47. nātyāyata-vadana; 48. mṛdu-jihva;

    49. tanu-j°; 50. rakta-j°; 51. gaja-garjita-(?) jīmūta-ghoṣa;

    52. madhura-(?)cāru-mañju-svara; 53. vṛtta-daṃṣṭra; 54.

    tīkṣṇa-d°; 55. śukla-d°; 56. sama-d°; 57. anupūrva-d°;

    58. tuṅga-nāsa; 59. śuci-n°; 60. viśuddha-netra; 61. viśāla-

    n°; 62. citra-pakṣma; 63. sitāsita-kamala-dala-(? śakala-)

    nayana; 64. (?) āyata(asita?)-bhrū; 65. ślakṣṇa-bhrū; 66.

    (?) anuloma-bhrū; 67. snigdha-bhrū; 68. pīnāyata-karṇa;

    69. (?) sama (or, aviṣama)-k°; 70. (?) anupahata-karṇendriya;

    71. (?) supariṇata-lalāṭa; 72. pṛthu-l°; 73. (su-)paripūr-

    ṇottamāṅga; 74. (?) asita-(or, bhramara-sadṛśa)-keśa; 75.

    (?) cita (Tib. on Mvy stug pa, thick) -keśa; 76. ślakṣṇa-keśa;

    77. asaṃlulita-keśa; 78. aparuṣa-keśa; 79. surabhi-keśa;

    80. śrīvatsa-svastika-nandyāvarta-vardhamāna-(? or, lali-

    ta-)pāṇipāda. There are of course variants for many of

    these, but except as indicated by question-marks and

    parentheses, I believe the list is substantially original.