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: 238 Adi-Purána, chap. XXII.
TRANSLATION. (Verse 219). There are ten kinds of flags, such as those of garlands, cloths, peacocks, lotuses, geene, eagles, lions, bulls, elephants, and wheels.- (220.) A hundred and eight flags of each kind, raised aloft in each direction and resembling the waves of the ocean, are to be known as Pálidhrajas.-- (221.) The group of those streamers flowing in the wind, shone, as if it were desirous to invite the gods and men to the worship of Jina.- (222.) It the garlandflags, heavenly wreaths of flowers, made by the gods, hung for the delight of the virtuous.(223.) The fine-cloth-flags, moved and raised by the wind, shone like big waves, rising iu the ocean of the sky.- (224.) In the poacockHags, peacocks, sportively throwing up their plumage, and with cloth in their mouths, shone, swallowing the discarded skins of snakes which they mistook for the snakes (themselves.)
- (225.) In the lotus-flags, lotuses, by the spreading of a thousand leaflets, blown about in the sky which resembled a lake, shone as though they were real lotuses.- (226.) The images of them, reflected below on the surface of the earth, deceived the black bees which followed them from an idea that they were
real lotuses.- (227.) Seeing their beauty at that time, nowhere else to be found, Lakshmi abandoned all the lotuses, and took up her abode in them.- (228.) In the geese-flags, geese, holding white cloths in the points of their beaks, appeared to extend the whiteness of their bodies in the shape of a white cloth. - (229.) Eagles, seated on the tops of the eagleflags, shone as if desirous to take Alight, with their faces turned upwards by the movements of their wings. - (230.) The eagles, reflected on a ground studded with blue gems, appeared like the images of eagles entering the lower world to catch the kings of the serpents.(231.) On the lion-flags, lions, about to spring, appeared intent upon vanquishing the heavenly elephants.- (232.) The large pearls, hanging from the faces of the lions, looked like fame acquired by breaking open the temples of great elephants.- (233.) Bulls, with long streamers attached to the tips of their horns, shone as if they had gained banners of victory by conquering their foes.- (234.) Large elephants, hold. ing flags with their uplifted trunks, shone like lordly mountains with torrents descending from their peaks.- (235.) Flags of wheels, having a thousand spokes with waving streamers, shone as if desirous of rivalling the sun.- (236.) The great banners shone, as if brushing the sky, and as if embracing the women who are the distant regions, and as if causing the earth to shake.- (237.) Thus these flags, gained by his victory over delusion, shone, announcing the undivided sway of the Lord over the three worlds.- (238.) In one direction, all the flags were one thousand and eighty"; and, in the four directions, they were four thousand three hundred and twenty.
THE MALAYAS OF THE MUDRARAKSHASA, AND THE DOMINIONS OF
KING PARVATESVARA.
BY KESHAV H. DHRUVA, B.A.; AHMADABAD. In his Introduction to the Mudrárdkshasa, geographical positions of most of the various lately published in the Bombay Sanskrit Series, peoples and localities whose names are menMr. Tólang has succeeded in determining the tioned in the play.
The commentator renders palidhvajah by frenidhuajah and parivdra-dhvaj4h.
> On this the commentator remarks-chitra-likhit na tu sikshát. . Another reading is fukl-am fuka-dhvaja.
The commentator explains dravya-ldsyd by sarira. treklatan.
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ESHTIT TAT: 11 loll तानेकशश्शतं चाष्टौ ध्वजान्प्रतिदिशं स्थितान् । वरिवस्यत्रगाश्चक्री स तबुद्धावनेः परं ।। १७॥
Adi-Purána, chap. XXXIII.
