Kalpasutra

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

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LIFE OF MAHÁVÍRA.
merable thousand-leaved water lilies, filled with aquatic animals, and exhibiting shoals of happy fishes, sporting and shining as if the water were on fire. There sprung up lotnses of the solar radiance and of the lunar radiance, the blue lotus, the rosecoloured, and the pale, all growing together in one inartificial, splendid, delightful assemblage. Large black bees, and swarms of gadflies, were luxuriating among the leaves. Black swans, and white swans, cranes, geese, and Indian cranes, in ali their pride, males and females, were fluttering over the water, while the lotus leaves, besprinkled with drops of dew, reflected every variety of colour, a sight wholly pleasing to the eye ; a piece of water inspiring the highest delight.
She next saw the sea of milk shining like the moon, when she shines with her utmost brilliance, propitious as the divine cul*, the fluid rushing together from the four quarters of the heavens, the lofty waves incapable of measurementt, utterly devoid of stability, agitated by the tempestuous winds; in one place rushing against ench other, while in another they dash against the shore, sending forth a brilliant spray, inspiring the
* Srivatsa, considered lucky among Jains and Brahmans.
+ So I paraphrase 3TT A TUT: a fine nex, “that can be compared only to themselves."