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Adipurana, he, increasing the supreme joy of his parents and the fulfillment of kinship, and increasing the joy of the world, grew up. ||186|| His supreme lifespan was eighty-four lakhs of years, having a final body. ||187|| He was long-sighted, long-lived, long-armed, long-eyed, and long-winded, and he became the thread-holder of the worlds. ||188|| Sometimes he would study the arts of writing, arithmetic, and Gandharva, which he had previously studied, and sometimes he would teach others. ||189|| Sometimes he would contemplate the arts of prosody, rhetoric, and the exposition of the principles of the universe, and sometimes he would contemplate the arts of painting and other arts. ||190|| Sometimes he would discuss grammar with grammarians, sometimes he would discuss poetry with poets, and sometimes he would debate with eloquent speakers. ||191|| Sometimes he would spend time with song-gatherings, sometimes with dance-gatherings, sometimes with instrumental music gatherings, and sometimes with gatherings of veena players. ||192|| Sometimes he would dance in the form of a peacock, teaching the celestial dancers to dance according to the rhythm, beating time with his hands. ||193|| Sometimes he would take the form of a parrot, with the power of transformation, and teach the celestial princes to recite verses with clear and sweet letters. ||194|| Sometimes he would make sounds in a low, rumbling voice, in the form of a swan, and honor the swan-like celestial beings by giving them pieces of clay with his own hand. ||195|| Sometimes he would take the form of an elephant calf, with the power of transformation, and comfort the celestial beings, or playfully strike them with his trunk. ||196||
1. Joy. 2. The speaker who speaks after careful consideration. 3. Wide-eyed. 4. Meaning: firmly established and acting. 5. Arithmetic. -Numbering 10, 80, M, L. -Numbering A, S, . 6. Arts. 7. Well-studied in the past.
8. The science that expounds prosody. Prosody, rhetoric - 10, L. 9. Description. 10. With gatherings of grammarians. 11. With eloquent speakers. 12. -Dance-A. 13. Clear. Well-joined - P. -Not joined - A, L. 14. Making sound. 15. Slow - A, S, D, L. 16. Broken. 17. Relating to the elephant. 18. Persuading. 19. -Raanaayya A, 50, S. Raanaadhya 60. -Raanaadya M, L. 20. Requesting. 21. Dancing with the trunk as a stick.