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PREPARATIONS
40. Then king Kunik, son of Bhambhasar, called the chief of the commissariat of his army (balavyaprit) and asked—“Beloved of 2 gods ! Get ready the best of elephants suitable for the use of a
monarch. Also call the four pronged army with the best of horses, elephants, chariots and warriors to attention or a state of readiness. For each of the queens, including Subhadra, get separate carriages duly harnessed with draught animals, ready for road and parked near the outer court.
"Get the triangular courtyards (singhatak), crossings of three, four and more paths, squares, highways and streets within and outside Champa city cleaned, washed and plastered with cleansing materiale (including cowdung). Make the middle and inner lanes (rathyantar) as well as marketplaces' (apanvithi) pleasant looking by getting them
cleaned and sprinkled with water. Get stepped galleries and platforms 19 erected at suitable locations near roads for the public to stand and sit.
Decorate the city with multicolourd small and large flags bearing insignias like lion, wheel and other patterns. On the sides of these flags put buntings with numerous smaller flags. Apply palm-prints and prints of five fingers with gorochan (a fragrant substance) and red sandalwood paste after getting the walls plastered and painted. After doing all this, make the city redolent by filling it with rising smoke rings from burning loban, dhoop and other incenses.
“Do what is to be done by you and get done what is to be done by your assistants or labours. Once the work is complete report back to open me. I will go to pay homage to Bhagavan only after th
४१. तए णं से बलवाउए कूणिएणं रण्णा एवं वुत्ते समाणे हद्वतुट्ठ जाव हियए करयलपरिग्गहिय सिरसावत्तं मत्थए अंजलिं कटु एवं वयासी-सामित्ति आणाए विणएणं वयणं पडिसुणेइ।
पडिसुणित्ता एवं हस्थिवाउयं आमंतेइ, आमंतेत्ता एवं वयासी-खिप्पामेव भो * देवाणुप्पिया ! कूणियस्स रण्णो भंभसारपुत्तस्स हत्थिरयणं पडिकप्पेहि, " हय-गय-रह-पवरजोहकलियं चाउरंगिणिं सेणं सण्णाहेहि, सण्णाहेत्ता एयमाणत्तियं के
पच्चपिणाहि।
er that."
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