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Seeing the twenty-eighth Tirthankara, the great one, the wise, the one without possessions, considered him, with just a glance, as insignificant as the hooves of a singer. ||103|| Then, to fulfill his desire, he bowed to the perfected ones and, with a loud voice, urged the charioteer, "Drive the chariot quickly!" ||104|| The chariot, driven by horses with loosened reins and speed like the mind, was swiftly moving through the salt ocean, like a ship. ||105|| The chariot precedes the desire, or the desire precedes the chariot. Thus, with such potential speed, the chariot was moving swiftly through the ocean. ||106|| Was it made firm by the water-stopping power, or did it reach the land? Because the horses of the Chakravarti were pulling the chariot through the water, thinking it was land. ||107|| Just as the sound of the wheels was heard outside the water, so it was heard inside the water. And just as the horses ran outside the water, so they ran inside the water. Ah! How wondrous is the merit of the Chakravarti! ||108|| Even though they were being drenched by large waves, the horses were pulling the chariot without any effort. They were not troubled by the waves, but rather their effort was being relieved. ||109|| The mass of water, rising up towards the sky due to the impact of the chariot wheels, brought heaviness even to the flag's cloth. This is natural, for such is the nature of water. In Sanskrit poetry, there is no distinction between "ḍ" and "l," so by reading "jalaanām" as "jaḍaanām," the fourth line should be interpreted as: "It is the nature of foolish people to bring heaviness, i.e., foolishness, to others." ||110|| The angaraaga (paste) applied to the horses' bodies did not become wet from the sweat produced by their exertion, but only from the splashes of water raised by the speed of their hooves. ||111|| For a moment, the ocean water, split in two by the assembly of the chariot's parts, seemed as if it were laying down a path, like a thread, for the future Chakravartis like Sagara. ||112|| The chariot, driven by the charioteer, reached the desired land. The desire, too, was fulfilled, driven by the meritorious charioteer. ||113||