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observances in high esteem. May I have devotion for the beautiful torfold piety which brings about the happiness of salvation. May the fourteen search- lights that remove old age, birth and death, flash forth in my mind. May the fourteen 'states of qualities' be clear to me and may the qualities of the perfected be firmly fised in my mind. Who brought into his heart, soon, this idea, having followed it with wisdom, he profusely adorned, in half an iustant, the face of the lady salvation.
17. Dharma is characterised by the ten qualities. Fruitful is the birth of him who obserres it. By dharma horses are obtained and excellent chouries are sportively wared over him. By dharma one would sport in celestial cars and more about in chariots, on elephants or by other conveyances. By dhorma one would get ample richess which is the essence of the jewels obtainable from the great ocean-the world. By dharma, various enjoyments become available and people do not transgress his orders. By dharma the goddess of speech stars at the tongue and one obtains the beautiful desires of his heart, ob brother : By dharma sevenstoreyed buildings and excellent gems giving various pleasures (are obtained). By dharna the gods worship the excellent Jinas; by dharmo all may become great gods or lords of men. By dharma an accomplished woman, the doom of the infatuated young men, becomes yours. By dharma are born Damodarcs, the excellent Jinas, Proti-Kesavas, Sankcoros, and the Suras in heaven. By charmo, all those good fortunes are born as also Haladharas and Cakradharas.
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18. Reflecting upon these ideas in his mind and making himself averse to sensual pleasures, counting a host of women as straw and speaking words pleasant to the ears, steadying the fickle mind, he (i. e. the king ) reached the pleasure-garden. He saw the extensive pleasure-garden resounding with the noise of the Kinnaras and Rhecaras. In that garden he saw the repository of goodness, who was a shower for suppressing the fire of anger and the like, whose body was resplendent with the rays of knowledge, who was a dart in the heart of the huntsman Cupid, a wrestler to vanquish the warrior infatuation, the residence of the tenfold dharma, the fire to consume the fluel of antagonistic philosophies, who was attached to the face of the lady in the form of severe penance, and was free from the shackles of Karma, who was destructive to birth and death, the home of
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