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## The Twenty-Eighth Chapter
Seeing him, the great-souled, wise, and fearless one, seeing the wheel-bearing one, who considered the hooves of cows as insignificant, like an ocean, ||103||
Then, with his mind set on achieving his goal, he bowed to the perfected ones, and loudly urged the charioteer, "Drive the chariot quickly!" ||104||
The chariot, propelled by horses whose reins were loosened and whose speed was like that of the mind, swiftly moved through the salt ocean, like a ship. ||105||
The chariot precedes the desire, or the desire precedes the chariot. Thus, with such anticipated speed, the chariot plunged into the ocean. ||106||
Was the water solidified by some power, or did the land become water? For the horses of the wheel-bearing one, thinking it was land, were pulling the chariot through the water. ||107||
Just as the sound of the wheels echoed outside the water, so it echoed within. And just as the horses ran outside the water, so they ran within. Ah! How wondrous is the merit of the wheel-bearing one! ||108||
Even though they were drenched by the large waves, the horses pulled the chariot without any effort. They were not troubled by the waves, but rather, their fatigue was removed. ||109||
The mass of water, rising from the impact of the chariot's wheels, brought heaviness even to the flag's cloth. This is natural, for such is the nature of water. In Sanskrit poetry, there is no distinction between 'd' and 'l', so by reading 'jadaanam' instead of 'jalaanam' in the fourth line, one can interpret it as: "Such is the nature of foolish people, that they bring heaviness, i.e., foolishness, to others." ||110||
The ointment applied to the horses' bodies did not become wet from the sweat produced by their exertion. It was only washed away by the splashes of water thrown up by the speed of their hooves. ||111||
For a moment, the water of the ocean, splitting apart on both sides due to the collision of the chariot's wheels, seemed as if it were laying down a path, like a thread, for the future wheel-bearing ones, like Sagara and others. ||112||
The chariot, driven by the charioteer, reached the desired land. The desire, too, was fulfilled, driven by the charioteer of merit. ||113||