Many soothsayers learned in marks and expert in signs gathered and prophesied: ‘One like this, with tuft and hair so prominent, will have many as his close adherents. Even as householder many people will follow him, due to the power of deeds in the past. But once gone forth, owning nothing, as Buddha the people will follow him.’”

26–27. Forty Gapless Teeth “Mendicants, in some past lives the Realized One was reborn as a human being. He refrained from backbiting. He didn’t repeat in one place what he heard in another so as to divide people against each other. Instead, he reconciled those who were divided and support those who are united, delighting in harmony, loving harmony, speaking words that promote harmony. Due to performing those deeds he was reborn in a heavenly realm. When he came back to this place he obtained these two marks: he has forty teeth, and his teeth have no gaps.