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**Adipurana**
102. While traversing the vast expanse of the path of words, a poet, weary from wandering through dense forests of meaning, should seek refuge in the shade of great poets.
103. The great poet, whose roots are in wisdom, whose branches are adorned with qualities like sweetness, vigor, and clarity, and whose leaves are radiant with beautiful words, bears a garland of flowers of fame.
104. Or, the great poet, whose shores are wisdom, whose waves are qualities like clarity, who is filled with gems of virtue, who is adorned with lofty and beautiful words, and whose vast flow is the lineage of teacher and student, acts like the ocean.
105. O wise men! Make full use of the poetic alchemy described above, so that your body of fame may endure for eons. Just as consuming alchemy strengthens the body, so too, understanding the nature of poetry, great poets, etc., makes the fame of a poet enduring.
106. For those who desire to accumulate wealth of fame and trade in the currency of virtue, this poetry, which describes the Dharmakatha, is considered capital (wealth).
107. I begin this story, which is connected to the Dharma Shastra, which was initiated by many virtuous men, and which describes the lives of great men like Rishabhanatha.
108. This Dharmakatha, like a Kalpalata (wish-fulfilling vine), is spread out with many branches (stories and sub-stories), providing shade (protection from the sun), and bearing fruit (wisdom).
109. This Dharmakatha is beautiful, serene, deep, pure, and cool, like a wish-fulfilling vine, and it dispels the suffering of the world, like a great ocean.