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[Third Class]
[There was a Gāthāpati named Nāga, who had twenty-one names. He was extremely prosperous and wealthy, possessing extensive and spacious buildings, beds, seats, vehicles, and conveyances, and was abundant in gold, silver, and other wealth. He successfully utilized the means of acquiring wealth. Even after eating, a large quantity of food remained in his house. He had slaves, maids, cows, buffaloes, and goats, and he was not defeated by many.
The wife of that Nāga Gāthāpati was named Sulasā. She had extremely delicate hands and feet. Her five senses and body were flawless and perfect. She was endowed with auspicious marks, decorations, and qualities. Her body was complete in measurement, weight, and size, and all her limbs were beautiful. Her form was as gentle as the moon, and her appearance was charming and dear.
The present sūtra describes the studies of this class, and the first study is the description of the parents of Anīyasakumāra.
2. That Nāga Gāthāpati's wife Sulasā had a son named Anīyasa. [He was delicate, flawless in his five senses and body, endowed with auspicious marks, decorations, and qualities, complete in measurement, weight, and size, with all his limbs beautiful, as gentle as the moon, charming and dear in appearance, surrounded by five wet-nurses, firmly established, nourished by the wet-nurses of milk, decoration, bathing, embracing, and playing, surrounded by many hunchbacks, dwarfs, short people, fat people, barbarians, dancers, courtesans, Damilīs, Siṃhalīs, Muruṇḍīs, Sabarīs, Pārasīs, and people from various other regions and countries, skilled in gestures, thoughts, desires, and knowledge, wearing various types of clothes and ornaments, skilled and disciplined, surrounded by young women of the royal court, honored and worshipped by the rain-bearing clouds, the great mountains, and the Campaka trees.]
Then, the parents of Anīyasa entrusted him to the teacher Kalāyariya, [and that Kalāyariya taught and trained Anīyasa in thirty-two arts and sciences, such as writing, arithmetic, drawing, dancing, singing, playing musical instruments, archery, swimming, keeping time, gambling, public speaking, painting, astrology, poetry, Prākrit, Sanskrit, Māgadhī, verses, songs, siloka, gold-craft, silver-craft, lime-craft, types of ornaments, the rituals of young women, elephant-lore, human-lore, horse-lore, ox-lore, chicken-lore, umbrella-lore, staff-lore, sword-lore, gem-lore, crow-lore, knowledge of materials, measurement of shoulders, measurement of cities, military formations, and so on.]