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## The Thirteenth Festival
**293.** The body of the Self-Existent One is pure, clear as milk and blood. There is no other water fit to touch His body than the water of the Ocean of Milk. **111.** Considering this, the gods, with great joy, decided to bathe the Lord with the water of the fifth Ocean of Milk. **112.** The festival of the Lord's birth and anointment began with golden pitchers, eight yojanas deep, one yojana wide at the mouth. **113.** These great pitchers, raised by the hands of the gods, were adorned, removing all impurities and obstacles. **114.** Golden pitchers, adorned with pearls, smeared with sandalwood paste, and filled with water, appeared in the sky. **115.** The sky was filled with these golden pitchers, passed from hand to hand by the gods, as if it were filled with reddish evening clouds. **116.** Indra, desiring to hold all the pitchers, created many arms. He was adorned with these arms, bearing ornaments, like a Kalpavriksha adorned with jewels. **117.** Or, Indra, with a thousand arms, was adorned with these golden pitchers, filled with pearls, like a Kalpavriksha adorned with vessels. **118.** Soudharma Indra, chanting "Victory, Victory," poured the first stream of water on the Lord's head. At the same time, millions of other gods, shouting "Victory, Victory, Victory," created a great uproar. **119.** The stream of water falling on the head of the Jina shone like the Milky Way, falling from the peak of Mount Himavan. **120.** Then, all the other Indras of the heavens, together, poured streams of water on the Lord's head from golden pitchers, shining like evening clouds, filled with water. Although the stream of water was falling on the Lord's head, it was like the Ganges and the Indus...