Kalpasutra

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

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KALPA SÚTRA.
religious teachers, and things good, lucky, charitable and desirable, require that a person should afterwards continue watching." She thus accordingly acted.
In the morning, at the first dawning of the day, Siddhartha called some of the royal messengers*, and spoke to them as follows :--"O beloved of the gods, go now quickly without the palace, and prepare the hall of audiencet, for holding a court today. Let the place be sprinkled with scented water, and the floor newly smeared‡, let the hall be adorned with sweet-smelling flowers of the five different colours, let the best aloe-wood and ambergris and incense, send up in curling wreaths their sweet delight-inspiring perfumes. After the whole has been properly perfumed, let my throne be set down in the midst of it and when you, by yourselves and others, have performed all these my commands, come back quickly and so report to
Suns. कौडंबिकपुरुषान्
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* Mag. कोडंविअपुरिसे Guj. आदेशकारी
+ उवठाणमालं a temporary building, or one of slight materials, large and spacious, such as the Hindus now construct, or deck out, on great occasions, a pavilion.
That is, with cow-dung, as the Hindus do constantly to earthen floors, which, when dried and swept, are far from offensive, even to a European.