Jain Journal 1973 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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APRIL, 1973
many miniature paintings on, and took bath in the usual, excellent and pleasant form, combined with healthy exercises, with water scented with flowers and with essences, with tepid water and pure water. When this healthy and excellent bath under many hundred-fold pleasures was over, he dried his body with a soft, scented, red-coloured turkish towel; (then he) dressed himself in precious and best of robes; he had his body rubbed with soft and scented Gosirsa and sandal pastes; after this were celebrated and performed hundreds of after-bath, pleasant, blissful and blest ceremonies; then were placed on him a wreath of flowers purified by the spray of sandal paste and a gold necklace set with pearls ; a threefold necklace of pearls, with a pearl pendant dangling therefrom; a golden girdle at the waist; a collar round his neck; rings on his tender fingers; bangles and bracelets adorning the arms; ear-rings brightening the face; and a shining crown-all these imparting extra grace to his charming person; the out-stretched bunches of necklace adorning the breast; yellow rings imparting a golden tinge to his fingers; a pearl border hanging down from the silken shoulder-cloth; and a pair of armlets, a very symbol of his valour and gallantry, inlaid with gems and precious stones, and made from fine gold, finely inlaid and set, joints duly fixed, brightened, polished and prepared by expert hands; to be precise, well-dressed and well-decorated, (looked he) like the Kalpa tree, the leader of men; with an umbrella decorated with wreaths and garlands of Korinta flowers held above him; with the finest of white camara fanning; greeted (was he) at his appearance with auspicious shouts of victory; and attended/followed by innumerable chieftains, satraps, kings, princes, knights, sheriffs, heads of families, ministers, chief ministers, astrologers, counsellors, valets, dance-masters, citizens, traders, merchants, guild-leaders, generals, caravan-chiefs, messengers, and frontier-guards, he, the monarch, leader of men, bull amog men, lion among men, came out from the room of showers, like the pleasant-looking moon in the company of stars, planets and other heavenly bodies glittering, as if emerging out of a great, white cloud, (the king) shining with enormous royal authority and fortune. 61
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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