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adorned with a white umbrella with a golden tip that resembled Himavat with its lotus-pond holding the lotusabode of Śri; always completely surrounded by sixteen thousand devoted Yakṣas as if by door-keepers station▸ed near, the King like Vasava mounted the elephantjewel like Airāvaṇa, which obscured one quarter of the sky by the top of its high protuberance. The noble elephant, giving loud roars, at once became another cloud, as it were, with unlimited streams of ichor. The cry of "Hail! Hail!" was made simultaneously by throngs of bards making the sky full of shoots, as it were, by raising their hands.
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Then the drum, being beaten and giving loud sounds like a chief-singer, made the quarters, like singinggirls, respond. Other choice, auspicious musical instruments resounded, turned into messengers in the task of summoning the other troops. With elephants whose protuberances bearing vermilion were like mountains bearing minerals; with horses giving the impression that the horses of the sun had been multiplied; with chariots spacious as his own wishes; with powerful infantry like submissive lions, the King set out first to the east, spreading a cover for the sky, as it were, by the dust raised by his army.
Conquest of Magadhatīrtha (40-153)
Then the cakra-jewel, preceding the army, attended by a thousand Yakṣas advanced in the sky like the sun's orb. Following it, the bearer of the staffjewel, the general-jewel named Susena, mounted the horse-jewel and set out, like the cakra. The priestjewel went with the King like a personified tranquillitycharm for the accomplishment of complete tranquillity. The steward-jewel advanced like a living food-dispensary, a shelter in the army able to produce divine food. The carpenter-jewel went with the King, able to create quickly the royal camp, etc., like Viśvakarman.
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