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When seen by an angry boa constrictor, his (the serpent's head cock's) rebirth, the (king) was swallowed and reborn (as a deity) in a vimāna (heavenly chariot) in the Puskara region in the Acyuta-kalpa heaven"9
31. dvāvimšaty abdhi-mānāvus. tad-ante punva-särathih
dvipe 'pare Videhe 'smin visave padma-samjñake
with a life-span the length of 22 sāgaras. At the end thereof he became a leader of the virtuous people in West Videha, in the region named Padma,
32. mahîso 'sva-purâdhišo Vajra-vīryasya bhū-pateh
Vijayavaś ca tad-derya Vajra-näbhiḥ suto 'bhavat
as a big landowner, ruler of Asvapura. Vajranābhi was the son of king Vajravīrya and his queen Vijayā.
33. sa cakra-laksitam laksmin a-ksunnām punya-raksitah
bhuktvapy (I-Irpnuvan bhoktum mokşa-laksmīm samudyatah
Though, protected by merit, he enjoyed permanent happiness characterized by a province from sea to sea,'' he was insatiable and eager to enjoy the bliss of deliverance.
34. Ksemam-karâkhva-bhattārakasya vaktrâbja-nirgatam
dharmômrta-rasam pītvā tvaktô-sesa-rasa-sprhah
He drank the nectar fluid of the Doctrine, which had left the mouth-lotus of the bhattāraka'' named Kșemankara, and longed for the whole essence that was missing still.
26 See Kirfel 1920: 237, 239.
39 See Kirfel 1920: 292.
4. Was he a cukra-vartin ?
+ In DULL 325.43 Ksemankara is a Jina, in Hemac.. Trio IX 2.169. a Jinêśvara. - On bhattarakas see Dundas 2002: 123ff. and especially Dundas 2007: 185f. (note 79 and 80).
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