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with inexhaustible clothes, ornaments, money, and grain. Even without a wall (as background for painting) a painting was made in the sky from the variegated light from palaces of diamond, sapphire, and cat's eye. In it the appearance of challenge-papers, as it were, to the peaks of Meru was made by the lofty golden palaces in the guise of banners. The rows of coping of bright jewels on its wall became without effort mirrors for the Khecarawomen after a long time. Girls play the karkarakagame 181 at will with the pearl settings of the syastikas in its Court-yards. The cars of the Khecaris become nests in a moment, being obstructed day and night by the tops of the tall trees in its gardens. By those who have seen the heaps of jewels piled up in its markets and palaces Mt. Rohana is considered a heap of their sweepings. The house-pools there have the beauty of Tāmraparņi from the broken pearl-necklaces of women enjoying water-sports. There are rich men in it, the merchant-son of any one of whom, I think, having gone to trade, is like Kubera. Its roads everywhere have the dust laid by water dripping at night from houses with walls of moonstone. 192 With its lacs of tanks, wells, and ponds whose water was like nectar, it surpassed Nāgaloka with its nine nectar-tanks.
Establishment of customs (924-984) Twenty lacs of pūrvas after his birth, the Lord became king in this city to guard the subjects. The first king of kings, like the onkāra of mantras, he guarded his subjects like his own children. The Lord appointed ministers, like the minor members of his own body, able in
191 917. A game of tossing and catching pebbles played by girls in Gujarāt.
102 922. “In general acceptance the moonstone is formed from the coagulation of the rays of the moon, and dissolves under the influence of its light.” Bloomfield, Pārçvanātha, p. 57, n. 27. Kathāsaritsāgara T. Vol. I. p. 266 n.
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