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2. Silk garment is produced from worms, gold from lotus; millet-grass from the hair of cows, day-lotus from mire, the moon from the sea, and a bee is produced from cow-dung.
-At the end of the preaching, Konika embraced Sravakadharma preached by the Tirthankaras, and on looking at Jambū Muni and other disciples of Sudharma Swāmin, he inquired out of curiosity:
श्रीसुधर्मगुरो! कोऽयं, द्विपेष्विव सुरधिपः । सुधांशुरिवधिष्णेषु, त्रिदिवाद्रिरिवाद्रिषु ॥ १ ॥ शालिधान्यमिवान्नेषु, कल्पद्रुम इव द्रुषु । अम्भोधिष्विव दुग्धाब्धि-श्चम्पकं कुसुमेष्विव ॥ २ ॥ हिरण्यमिव लोहेषु, रसेष्विव सुधारसः ।
अद्भुतस्तव शिष्येषु, सविशेषः प्रदीप्यते ? ॥ ३ ॥ 1. Sri Sudharma Guro ! ko'yam, dvipesviva sura-dvipah; ___..Sudhansurivadhisnesu, tridivādririvadrisu. .. 2. Šalidhānyamivānneşu, Kalpa-druma iva druşu;
Ambhodhişviva dugd hābdhiscampakam kusumeşviva. 3. Hiranyamiva lohesu, rasesviva sudhārasah; _Adbhutastava sisyesu sa-visesah pradipyate. ... 1-3... 0 Sudharma Gurul Among this group of your disciples, who is this disciple of yours, who shines out more brilliantly, miraculously like an Indra's elephant among elephants, like the moon among meteors, like the celestial
mountain ( Mount Meru) among mountains, like rice among corn-grains, like कल्पद्रुम Kalpa-drama, the fabulous wishing tree among trees, like the ocean of milk among seas, like the Campaka flower (Michelia Champaca) among flowers, like gold among iron (objects.), and like nectar, among objects of taste?
