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this precious gem is missing from our hands". Uttering these sorrowful words, and becoming disappointed, they bowed down low before the Lord, and requested him thus:-“ O Venerable Lord ! Now that you are ready to renounce the world, please allow us to celebrate your Dîkşa Mahotsava, at least for our own happiness" in this way, by the entreaties of his kinsmen, Šramaņa Bhagavā Mahāvîra accepted their request for celebrating his Dikşā Mahotsava, as great men are always afraid of refusal of a request.
King Nandivardhana then ordered his servants, "Yon now make speedy preparations for a very costly anointing ceremony suitable for Śramaņa Bhagavan Mabăvîra. The servants, saying “Just as your Majesty orders", went for their respective work, They kept in readiness one thousand and eight pots of gold and other materials brought holy waters and excellent medicaments of all the sacred places, and prepared a paste of gośirşa sandal - wood and other scented substances,
Becoming astonished by the quivering of their celestial thrones, and knowing the real state of affairs through the me. dium of their Avadhi Jñana, the thirty-two Indras, with their extensive e;es resembling a blooming hundred-petalled lotusflower, appearing b:autiful by their glossy and shining tufts of hair resembling a heap of collyrium being in the blessed bloom of their youth with their bodies anointed with a liquid pasle of sandal-wood, shining with flowers suitably hovered round by humming bees and with soft celestial garments with their mouths adorned with rows of teeth as white as Jasmineflowers or the pith of a concha, with their heads glittering with didems shining by multiude of raye, with their bodies decorated with numerous ornameute, whe were pleasant to look a at and were extremely beautiful, who had canopies, flags, and various other ensigns on them, who were surrounded by innumerable multitudes ol attendant gods and who filled up the sky with the noise of kettle-drums, mridanga drums, wind instruments, tilima, ram-drum and other musical instruments
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| SR No. | 008002 |
| Book Title | Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 2 Vibhag 1 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker |
| Publisher | Parimal Publication |
| Publication Year | 1989 |
| Total Pages | 623 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion |
| File Size | 14 MB |