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dull in crossing the ocean of scriptures, though yraceful spicech does in no way flow forth, though I fight shy of the learned, though I did not sit at the feet of poets and though I sullied my fame by the company of the stupid, still, whatever fruit has accrued to me hy recalling to any heart Siddhasena, worthy Samantalhalra, Akalamkadera the ocean of the water of scriptures, Jayadera, the large-ininded Svayambhu and the honourable Puspadanta, the abode of the god less of speech, and by paying my respects to them, from that I express the theme of my heart full of interest anil devoid of unpleasantness. Here there is no simulation.
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3. In this Jumbuilcīpa, the foremost of the continents, the lamp of the islands, marked by the Jambu tree, girt up with the surrounding briny occan and measuring a hundred thousand Yojanas, there is the vast and prosperous Bharata country shining with the rivers Gangū and Sindhu, the depositary of the jewels of the earth consisting of six parts and beautiful like the mine of genis ( i. e. the ocean ). Here is the pleasant Anga country as if the lady earth had put on a divine apparel; where lotuses have blossomed in lakes like eyes on the face of the earth; where the divine-bodiel Yakshus having their affection fisel on the beauty of the farmers' wives, do not move off; where fields of paddy are protected by girls by enchanting the flocks of deer with their music; where travellers rid themselves of the fatigue by feasting upon grapes and sleep happily on earth-lotuses anil where the row of lotuses in the waters of canals looks extremely beautiful as if the earth were siniling. In that pleasant country, full of corn and gold, there is the attractive city by name Campā lovely to the eyes of people, the best on the surface of the earth and abounding in all excelleuces.
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4. It is surrounded by a inoat full of water like the earth looking beautiful with the ocean. With lofty and white ( mansions painted with ) Kāsisa, it is, as it were, touching the sky with hundreds of arms; where lofty Jina-temples look beautiful as if they were pure, unbroken heaps of merit; where silk-banners are shaking on every house as if white serpents were gliding; which is resplendent with the rays of five-coloured geins as if a handful of flowers had been offered by Cupid; which is beautiful with picture-houses like fascinating aerial cars of gods; and which looks beautiful with streaks of saffron as if declaring itself to be the battle-field of Cupid. There are red lotuses on earth as if it declares to be holding hundreds of
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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