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CHAPTER X
STORIES OF DAŚĀRŅABHADRA, ŚĀLIBHADRA, AND DHANYAKA
Daśārṇabhadra (1-56)
Now the Lord, surrounded by gods and asuras, in the course of his wandering from the city Campa arrived at the country Daśārņa. In it there is a large city, Daśārņapura, and its king was named Daśārṇabhadra, who was very magnificent.
There his spies said to him as he was seated in the assembly in the evening, Vira, the Lord Jina, will come to this city of yours at dawn." Delighted at that speech, the king wore a coat of mail, as it were, of hair erect from joy, like Vidūra a multitude of small pearls at thunder. He said in the presence of the assembly, "At dawn I shall pay homage to the Lord with a magnificence with which no one in the three worlds has paid homage to him."
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With these words the King of Daśārṇapura dismissed all the ministers, et cetera and went to the women's quarters. Thinking, "I shall pay homage to the Teacher of the World in this way and I shall recite such hymns of praise to him," he passed the night with difficulty, engaged in such reflections. Just as the sun rose, the royal sun summoned the city-superintendents and others and instructed them, "The road between my house and the Master's samavasaraṇa must be decorated with all magnificence, suitable for my passage."
And now, the Blessed One arrived outside the city and a samavasaraṇa was erected there by the gods. The king's servants executed the king's order immediately. Results are produced by an order of kings just as by the mind of gods. The dust of the king's highway was laid with saffron-water, the surface of the road was made uneven with heaps of
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