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TRANSLATION Oh Ye, wbo has fathomed the mystery of the three rorlds, bow to you, lord of victory, unfathomable, immersurable. Borr, ob god, the great master of Cupid; bow, oh loru, formless, stainless. Boiv, oh passion-less destroyer of the enemy of infatuation; bɔw, oh lord of mea who has done away with the desire for pleasures. Burr, oh jartless, absorbed in final beatitude; bow oh conqueror of Cupid, prart in meditation. Buw, oh rem:Ver of karmas by pure meditation in a mome:t; I bow, with my mind, to your feet. Victory, oh Jind, the sun of omniscience destroying utterly the darkness of wrong faith". Thus having adored, worshipped and ealogized, the Khouras loukel at each other.
7. Seeing the images so beautiful they felt a great liking in their mind. They then said " In 1 ijayarlles which has become the sporting ground of the Sitrus, we shall devoutly inake images after these patterns. " Thinking so, with great derotion, they seized with both hands, this image of Parsya Jina, male up of many jewels. Lifting it up, they starte 1 off. In the sky it shone forth as if the digit of the moon was moving along; as if the lightning was flashing forth. They rent n’rthwards as if escaping the god of death. With their devotion arouseil in the Jina, the two brothers, of muscular bodies, arrivel here. Leuring the ješel-ma'le image on the escellent mountain, they, the storehou es of virtues, who ha-l reinovel the shadow of worldly fear, went in front oi tho care
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8. There, having finished their devout a:loration, both of them came back to their own image. Having reached there, when they attempted to take it up, the image would not move from its place, as if it was arrested by some Khecara, as if it had stopped there fiocling the place so beautiful. Finding it immovable, they felt añcted with sorrow in their mind at the moment. “Out of enthusiasm for the next world, alas, what have we done this, sinful as we are ? The image of the Jina that we removed from its place, is going to be the symptom of our falling into hell, Out of the two places, not one could be secured ". Pure knowledge developed in them. Having made a bos, they fear-stricken, put it into it having dug the ground. Leaving it there, thes, reluced in their bodies, went hastily to the temple of a thousand summits, having adored which, they saw sage Yasodhara who had conquered his min 1 and was absorbed in meditation,
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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