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(Splendor), made splendid by you as master. For lotuses are lotuses from the rays of the sun.288 At the boundary of the west quarter like your vassal-king, O Lord, I shall always take on my head the command of the ruler of the earth.” With these words, the Lord of Prabhāsa, like a foot-soldier on the parade-ground, gave the Lord of Bharata first the arrow that had been discharged. He gave the King also bracelets, a girdle, a crest-jewel, a breast-jewel, neck-ornament, etc., like his own splendor personified. For the sake of reassuring him, the King accepted all that. For the first indication of a lord's favor is the acceptance of gifts. Installing him in that same place like a tree in a basin of water, he, a restrainer of enemies, went again to his camp. At that time he broke his four days' fast with divine food brought by the steward-jewel like a wishing-tree. The King made an eight-day festival to the god Prabhāsa. In the beginning honors are customary even to a mere vassal.
Conquest of the goddess Sindhu (215-226) Then the King went behind the cakra, like light behind a torch, and reached the south bank of the great river, the Sindhu. The King went toward the east on the same bank, and made a camp near Sindhu's dwelling. Concentrating on Sindhu, he made a four days' fast, and the goddess Sindhu's throne shook like a wave struck by wind. Then she knew by clairvoyant knowledge that the Cakravartin had come, and she approached to worship with numerous divine gifts. Then standing in the air, crying “Hail ! Hail!" accompanied by blessings, she said, “I am here, O Cakrin, your servant. What can I do ?” She gave the King one thousand and eight jeweled pitchers that were like the wealth of the goddess Śrī, like a succession of deposits. She gave the King two jeweled lion-thrones, suitable for the Śrīs of fame
288 207. Kamala. I.e., the day-blooming lotus.
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