Kalpasutra

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

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KALPA SÚTRA.
leaves, and southern-wood, besides jasmine of other rare varieties; and sesame flowers, and other flowers of spring, with red, blue, and white water lilies, with beautiful sweet-smelling mango blossoms-producing altogether an unequalled, delightsome, sweet-smelling garland of flowers, imparting pleasure to the inhabitants of the ten regions of the world, shining and waving, and pleasing the eye, and of every variety of colour, while a swarm of six-footed* honey-bees were seen buzzing and flying around it as it descended from heaven.
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The queen next saw the moon white as the froth of milk, the drops of dewt, or a silver spire, rejoicing the heart, delighting the eyes, a perfect circle, destroying thick conglomerated, impenetrable darkness, a full moon, at the exact point between the two halves of the month, bringing out the radiance of the wild lotus flowers, adorning night, shining like a polished mirror, and brilliant as the white swan, sharpening the arrows
*The Jains are fond of four-tusked elephants and sixfooted bees, and other such preter-natural animals.
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literally water-pearls, both Sanskrit and Gujaráthi
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The Sanskrit from which the Magádhi is changed may be_उदकरज as well as उदकरत्न