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appointed by Śakra, daily Naminātha grew like another
moon.
King (40-43)
Childhood left behind, fifteen bows tall, the Master married a maiden at his father's command. After he had passed twenty-five hundred years from birth, he accepted the kingdom given by his father, knowing the fruit of pleasure-karma. When five thousand years had passed from the time he took the kingdom, the Lokantikagods said to the Lord, "Found a congregation. After establishing his son, Suprabha, on the throne, Lord Nami gave gifts for a year with money brought by the Jṛmbhakas.
Initiation (44-50)
Surrounded by kings, Suprabha and others, and by gods, Sakra and others, the Lord went to Sahasrāmravaṇa in a palanquin, Devakuru. The Lord entered the grove which had a multitude of bees engaged in kissing the kadamba, the gardener occupied with gathering jasmine blossoms, the surface of the ground made red by the falling trumpet-flowers, with heaps of sirișa-flowers made into a couch for lovers, with the rainy season indicated even in hot weather by masses of spray pouring forth from the water-wheels being worked. In the last watch of the ninth day of the black half of Aṣāḍha in Aśvini the Lord became a mendicant with a thousand kings, observing a two-day fast. Mind-reading knowledge arose then and on the next day he broke his fast with a milk-dish in the house of King Datta in Virapura. The rain of treasure, et cetera were made by the gods and King Datta made the platform, and the Lord wandered elsewhere for nine months.
Omniscience (51-56)
Then he went to Sahasrāmravana, the place of initiation, and stood in pratimä beneath a bakula, observ
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