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deceitless, who has built this cave of a thousand pillars ". He, then, sau the Jina free from attachment, and bogan to sing a hymn with devotion “ Be Victorious, oh destroyer of the four forms of existence, remover of impurities. Be victorious, oh thunderbolt to the mighty mountain of pride. You are my shelter, oh lord, stainless, oh sun to ranquish the darkness of ignorance.”
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6. Having worshipped Lord Jina, both the kings quickly mounted over the hill. They looked in all directions and the kings became happy in their mind. While they stood in the forest looking around, the very instant the gooil elephant arrived. The lord of the elephants came into the lake to get lotuses, like a mountain going to the sea. It moved on with the sounil of its fanning ears and giving out rut flowing from the temples, having beautiful, taway eyes, ailinirable by its tusks, having a prominent back bone like a stringed bow, driving away the swarms of bees and filling the faces of the directions with water from its trunk, plucking lotuses by hundreds with its trunk and bearing a string of good pearls on its headl". The elephant took the lotuses, quickly filleil its trunk with water and circumambulating the ant-hill he bathel it and worshipped it devoutly.
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7. The devout elephant went away having worshipped the ant-hill. Then king Karakanda went to the lake. He saw the lake full of water producing confidence in him as he approached it, and uttering 'come', as it were, through thc chattering of the birds; holding jars of water in the form of the frontal globes of water-elephants; giving satisfaction to beings nfflicted with thirst; flourishing through its lotus plants with uprising stalks; proclaiming its mind through the flying up fish; laughing with its teeth in the form of foamy bubbles; going with very pure and numerous qualities; joyful through blossomed lotuses; dancing through the various kinds of birds; singing through the humming of the bees and running through the water agitated by the wind, as if it was a noble person, agree. able and worthy of & visit. Taking out water, both the kings washed their feet and cleansed their mouths and then they examined the ant-hill which had been worshipped by the elephant with Totuses.
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Here is again a reference to tho Vukikadang metre of the Kadavaks,
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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