Agam 35 Chhed 02 Bruhatkalpa Sutra

Author(s): K C Lalwani
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira
fuppi jara320 i tofauti OML-for-240-4f-fani per 4-f43मसूरगोथ्थयं सेय-वथ्थ-पच्चुत्थुयं सुमउय अंग-सुह-फरिसगं विसिलैं तिसलाए खत्तियाणीए भद्दासणं रयावेइ। रयावित्ता कोडं बिय-पुरिसे सद्दावेइ । सद्दावित्ता एवं वयासी ।
Having come out, he moved in the direction of the external hall of audience, and having gone there, he sat down on the throne with his face turned towards the east.
62 Having taken his seat, he got erected in the north-eastern side of him, eight chairs of state, covered with white cloth, and sanctified with mustard. Having got them erected, neither very near nor very far from him, in (another) corner, he got placed an interior screen, decorated with sundry jewels and precious stones, extremely worth-seeing, very costly due to the use of the finest silk, adorned with innumerable pieces of fine needle-work made with fine threads and depicting miniatures of wolves, bulls, horses, men, dolphins, birds, snakes, kinnaras, rurus, śarabhas, camaras, elephants, wild creepers and lotus creepers. Then he got erected a special chair of state for kşatriyāņi Trišalā, bedecked with sundry gems and precious stones, covered with white cloth, very soft, comfortable to touch, and out-fitted with a coverlet and a soft pillow. Having got it done, he sent for the keepers of the royal household, and these having arrived, he said thus.
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खिप्पमेव भो देवाणुप्पिया । अलैंग-महा-णिमित्त-सुत्तथ्थ-धारए विविह-सत्थकुसले सुविण-लक्खण-पाढए सद्दावेह । तए णं ते कोडुबिय-पुरिसा सिद्धथ्थेणं रण्णा एवं वुत्ता समाणा हट्ठ-तुट जाव...हियया करयलं जाव...पडिसुणंति । ६४
“Oh beloved of the gods! Hurry up and bring forth (hither) the interpreters of the significance of dreams, who well knoweth the science of prognostics with its eight branches, and are wellversed in other sciences too." Having been ordered thus by king Siddhartha, the keepers of the royal household, happy, pleased, highly delighted in mind, with their heart thrilled with joy, and with their pore-holes expanded like kadamba flower hurt by rain-drops, touched their head with