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Hush ! let us listen to a Voice from the firmament. It is the Voice of Indra commanding seraphic angels to prepare for Mahavir's Initiation Ceremony !
INDRA'S VOICE
Get the Palanquin ready-the Chandra Prabha Palanquin, illumined with a thousand moons !
SERAPHS
The Chandra Prabha palanquin is of the intangible stuff of blinding silver drawn from the heart-core of planets. It is waiting patiently to bear the weight of pure Spirit
It is waiting impatiently to bear the Golden Lord Mahavir to the Gnyath Khanda Gardens !
(the curtain comes down, royal music starts; drums beat announcing the departure of Mahavir from the kingdom which to Him ceases to have any significance whatsoever. A procession appears before the curtain, preceded by players on fifes and drums.
For the last time we see Mahavir in royal robes : white raiment, blinding
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