Rajprashniya Sutra

SR No.: 035223
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N V Vaidya
Publisher: Khadayata Book Depot
Total Pages: 286
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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TRANSLATION
[ 5 touching (the ground) sparcely (or thinly), so as to Temove dust, and then make (the ground) free of dust, with the dust settled down, removed, fallen down, put down and suppressed. Having accomplished that, pour down all around and up to the knees, a shower of plenty of five-coloured flowers, resplendent, and growing on land as well as in water and standing on their stems ( i. e. plucked with their stems). After that, make it divine, and worthy of being visited by the best of gods, like an essence of perfume so to say, scented with excellent perfumes, and charming with the spreading aroma of black sandal, excellent kundurukka, and turukka and the frankincense that will spread everywhere, and ask others also to do the same, and report the (execution of th=) order to me quickly.
[ Page 41 ) ( Sūtra 8): Then those menial gods, being thus addressed by the God Sūryābha, were delighted,...upto.. heart, and bending their heads and grasping them in their ten fingers and placing their folded hands on their heads, accepted humbly the words of command, saying, . It is just as you say, O Lord.” And saying thus, they repaired to the north-eastern direction, effected a magic transformation of their bodies by a magical mutation or change), and spread themselves out over numerous yojanas like a rod (or column), as follows: Of jewels, diamonds, beryls, lohitākşa-rubies, cat's-eyes, hamsa-garbha crystal, garnets, sauganddnika rubies, jasper, ankas, anjanas, silver, gold, anjana-pulakas, crystal and riștas, they cast away the gross atoms (or matter) and took ( only ) the fine atoms. Then again, for the second time, they under. wept the magic physical transformation and transformed their bodies. Then with the excellent, hasty, speedy,