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Kummāputtachariam
“Well, queen, after full nine months and seven-and-a-half days, you will get a son possessed of many auspicious signs and virtues who would be, in fact, an eye to the world [a friend of the world, or, the Sun in fact in this world].” (104)
Having heard these words of the king and being pleased and gratified at her heart, the queen with the permission of the king arrived at her residence. (105)
After having lived the life of a god, the soul of the prince, full of well-achieved merit, got there into the womb of Kūrmā just as a swan into a lake. (106)
The queen bore an excessive splendour by virtue of that foetus, just as a mine of gems with a gem or a mother o’pearls with a big pearl. (107)
By the innate power of the foetus and by the rise of her auspicious merit there arose in her the auspicious desire in pregnancy to hear about Faith and Scriptures. (108)
Then, by the king there were summoned through his servants the Doctors of the Six Philosophies present in the city for speaking about Religion to Queen Kūrmā. (109)
All of them, after taking bath and making offerings and performing many wonderful and auspicious rites, arrived at the Royal Palace with their respective books. (110)
Having bestowed blessings (upon the king and the queen) and being well received and honoured by the king, they exhibited their respective religious beliefs having occupied auspicious seats. (111)
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