On returning to here, he is rounded in seven places, and tender hands and feet are found. The soothsayers expert in signs declared: ‘He’ll get tasty foods of all sorts as a householder, that’s what that means. But even if he goes forth he’ll get the same, supreme in gaining tasty foods of all sorts, cutting all bonds of the lay life.’”

7–8. Tender and Serried Hands “Mendicants, in some past lives the Realized One was reborn as a human being. He brought people together using the four ways of being inclusive: giving, kindly words, taking care, and equality. Due to performing those deeds he was reborn in a heavenly realm. When he came back to this place he obtained these two marks: his hands and feet are soft and tender, and they are serried.