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trees, 51 Madyāngas, etc., always give to the people whatever they desire without effort on their part. Among these, the Madyāngas give wine, the Bhľngas dishes, the Tūryāngakas choice musical instruments with various times.52 The Dipaśikhâs and Jyotişkas 68 give a wonderful light, the Citrāngas furnish wreaths, and the Citrarasas, in turn, food. Manyangas furnish ornaments, the Gehākāras houses, and the Anangas various kinds of divine apparel. These give definite objects, and also indefinite ones; and other wishing-trees there give all things desired. There the jiva of Dhana, like a wishing-tree in heaven, had everything desired and enjoyed pleasures of the senses as a twin.
Third incarnation as a god (238) After it had completed the life of a twin, then the jiva of Dhana became a god in Saudharma, as a result of his gift in a former birth.
Fourth incarnation as Mahabala (239-459) When he had fallen from Saudharma, then he was born as a son of King Satabala, the crest-jewel of the Vidyādharas, by his wife Candrakāntā, in the West Videhas, in the province Gandhilāvati, on Mt. Vaitādhya, in the country named Gandhāra, in the city Gandhasamrddhaka. He was exceedingly strong, and was named
Mahābala' because of his strength. Protected by guards and cherished, he gradually grew up like a tree. Gradually filled with all the arts, like the moon with digits, highly distinguished, he became a festival to the eye of the people. At the proper time his parents, who knew the proper time, married him to a maiden
61 232. The kalpa-trees are described in detail in Jamb. 20, p. 99 f. and Pravac. 1067–70, p. 314.
52 233. Apparently, they played in quick, moderate, or slow time, 68 234. The Jyotiskas also gave heat.
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