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126. tat-kşaņâgata-devendra-pramukhâmara-nirmita
prasiddha-madhva-kalvāna-snapanâdi-mahôtsavah
There is a great festival of the ablution, etc., on the well-known middle one of the festive days' 19 (i. e. the Jina's dīksā) performed by the the gods, headed by their king, arriving on the same moment.
127. pratyaya!40-yuktimad-vägbhih krta-bandhu-visarjanah
āruhya sibikām rūdhām vimalâbhidhayā vibhuh
Giving up his friends with words in accordance with his faith the great one with the impeccable name ascended a high palanquin and
128. vidhāvastamam āhāra-tvāgam Aśva-vane maha
silātale mahā-sattvah palyankâsanam āsthitaḥ
after fasting on a large slab of rock in the Aśvavanal4l for eight meals, the great being on the seat of his palanquin
129. uttarâbhimukhaḥ Pause māse pakṣe sitêtare
ekādasyum su-pürvâhne samam trisata-bhūbhujaih
turned to the north with three hundred princes 142 in the dark half of the month Pausa (Dec.-Jan.) very early on the eleventh day,
130. krta-siddha-namaskāro diksă-laksmīm samādade
dütikām mukti-kanyāyā mânvām krtya-prasādhikām
139 Schubring 2000 $ 34 end. See also the note on vs 88.
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Text: pratveva.
141 Not in any dictionary.
142 Cf. Bhd 6,111. Princes as a rule do not start into homelessness alone but are in the company of many others, as e.g. at Hemac., Trio IV 4,64, with one thousand and V 1,131 even with four thousand.
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