Kalpasutra

Author(s): J Stevenson
Publisher: Oriental Translation Fund London

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LIFE OF MAHAVIRA.
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on which it rested. She had also around her neck a string of grains and golden dinars". Two large ear-rings hung down from her ears, and illumined the shoulders with which they came in contact. Everything about her was beautiful; her face had a noble aspect ; her eyes were large and lovely, like lotus flowers; she held a water lily, still dripping with water, in her hand, and she was fanned by an agreeable wind, which set in motion her fine black braided hair. Such was the goddess the queen saw residing in her lotus house, called Pailmaraha, on the top of Mount Himávat, and by whom stood the guardian elephant of that quarter of the heavens, bathing her with water from his trunk.
The fifth dream was a vision of a garland of flowers altogether delightsome, and worthy a place in the heaven of delights. It was composed of the following flowers-champaka, asoka, punnága, priyangu, sarisava, magarat, málatit, játit, juhit, kolla, koshta, and bakula, intermingled with amaranthi
* The original word is here retaine
The custom of stringing coins together, and adorning with them children especially, is still very common in India.
† These are all varieties of Jasinine. The scientific names of the other flowers will generally be found in WLLONS Dirimu