Agam 35 Chhed 02 Bruhatkalpa Sutra

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

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Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira
55. erect and get erected in the middle of roads and on approaches to the shopping centres innumerable platforms, high and low, and get these platforms decorated with multi-coloured flags and banners; decorate and have decorated all places with coloured canopies, scatter fried rice, imprint at diverse places five fingers in open palm with gośirşa, fresh red sandal, and dardara (sandal); place and have placed luck-foreboding pitchers (at various places) and beautify and have beautified the door part of each arch with homage vases; decorate and have decorated all places with flower garlands tied loosely and tied tightly, thus making them very thick; fill and have filled the whole town with fragrance by burning the best black aloe, kundurukka and turukka with incenses, and turn the whole city into a cup of fragrance by spraying perfumes; engage and have engaged many players, dancers, rope-dancers, wrestlers, boxers, jesters, story-tellers, ballad-singers, actors, messengers, pole dancers, fruit-mongers, bag-pipers, lute players and tālācaras with these innumerable attendants; and erect and have erected a thousand pillars and a thousand posts and start the festivities. Thus giving start to the festivities, report to me the execution of my orders.”
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तए णं ते कोडुबिय-पुरिसा सिद्धथ्थेणं रण्णा एवं वुत्ता समाणा हट्ठ तुट्ठ जाव... यिया करयल-जाव...पडिसुणिता खिप्पमेव कुंडपुरे णगरे चारग-सोहणं जाव... उस्सवित्ता जेणेव सिद्धथ्थे राया तेणेव उवागच्छति । उवागच्छित्ता करयल जाव. . . कट्ट, सिद्धथ्थस्स रण्णो एयमाणत्तियं पच्चप्पिणंति । १०१
Thus having been ordered by king Siddhartha, the royal-household keepers (city-guards) became glad at heart, happy, joyful and delighted, their hearts throbbing with glee. (They) touched their head with ten fingers as aforesaid, till hurried to Kundapura to open the prison gates, and so on....till (again) started the festivities. Having started the festivities, they touched their head with their ten fingers, and reported to king Siddhārtha the execution of his orders.
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