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2. A worthless object has usually a great boasting. There in not as much noise in gold as is produced in bell-metal.
Addressing the teacher who was thinking thus, the Indra
said,
bhavată
मनुष्यमात्र शिशुरेष विम ! न शङ्कनीयो भवता स्वचित्ते । विश्वत्रयीनायक एष वीरो, जिनेश्वरो वाङ्गमयपारश्वा || ३ || Manusyamatram sisuréṣa vipra ! na sankaniyo svacitté; Viśvatrayinayaka esa Viro, Jineśvaro vangamaya-pāradriśvā. 3. You should not, O Brahmana! think in your mind that he is only a human child. He is a Jinéśvara named Vira who is the leader of the Three Worlds, and who has seen the further end of all knowledge.
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Having thus adored Vardhamana Kumāra with due ceremony, Sakra went away. Bhagavan also surrounded by numer ous Jñata ksatriyas, returned home.
In due course of time, Bhagavan attained youth withont any mishap. With the advance of youth, the dark, soft and glossy hair of Vardhamāna Kumāra looked elegant. His head appeared like a beautiful canopy. His face with two spacious eyes reaching the root of the ear resembled a full-blown lotus. His chest appeared ornamented with stere Sri Vatsa, a tuft of hair of this shape on the breast of Vishnu or Kriṣṇa and of other deities, like a very brillant gem, and spacious like a marble slab of Kanakǎcala. His abdomen was thin and decorated with an umbilicus as deep as the inclination of the mind of a virtuous man and furnished with circular markings going round, from right to left. His thighs looked elegant with fine soft hair, and they resembled the trunk of an elephant. His lotus-like feet ornamented in the front by rows of nails on tips of toes as if they were rows of Cintamani gem, were marked with the auspicious signs of flags of victory,
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