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has glosseng: Sārira-dhātu (Pali), is the special bodily relics found amongst the bone remains after the cremation of Buddha and most Arahant. The extreme heat of the fire usually causes the larger bone segments to disintegrate and break up, leaving many small, often porous and ashen white colored fragments. After a certain period, the physical elements in each piece of the bone fragments is believed to amalgamate into dense, hard, crystal-like pebbles of various hues of translucency and opacity. The crystal like sarira is believe to able to transform itself from a single pebble into multiple pebbles or from multiple pebbles fused into a single pebbles. Even the hair, which were collected when the Arahant shaved his head each month is believe able to undergone a transformation similar to the cremated bone fragments.
lexicalizationeng: Sārira-dhātu
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