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the three steps are those taken during the incarnation of a 4. "The Dwarf appeared before Bali and begged of him as much land as he could step over in three paces. The generous monarch complied with the request. facu took two strides orer heaven and earth; but respecting the virtues of Bali, he then stopped, leaving the dominion of qals, or the infernal regions, to Bali.' (Macdonell: Vedic Mythology, pp. 37.42; Dowson: A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology etc., pp. 35 ff.). The third step of 2199 had no place; though concrete or material it was absorbed in himself, in his own immaterial self. Feet = go as well as 7. Note, however, the com. 41421971
#777 FIFT FATEHT FATEH Aag sa व्यक्तमापतितमित्यर्थः।. The verse of कालिदास in the com. comes from रघुवंश १३.१. 3) 2 = 57, see 43 below. 37169=39 , i. e., 3792p or stap. 31678 = 37997. During his childhood hot was found unable to cross the threshol, his foot having crossed it only halfway; his elder brother Balarāma covertly laughed at him; and it is this foot that is saluted. B reads B& foi = 377-59 ferah. 4) Bufe or fiz was a Daitya, and son of Bali, sent by i to destroy 5. He assumed the form of a savage bull and attacked
out. By the superior strength of his arms out twisted its neck, pulled out its horn and thrashed it thereby so much that it vomitted blood and died on the spot ( 17. 10. 36. 1 15). The arm of sur was a veritable bolt, dark like cloud or hard and dark; and when it fatally acted on the neck of se, it resembled Yama's noose operating [ 9a ) or extended at the time of the calamity of the final destruction. For the use of a UTT see 755 below. 5) for fry is sometimes portrayed reclining on the serpent 19 in the watery underworld of qua, tu is the king of Nāgas, the serpent race: and he rules over the Pâtāla, the infernal regions. He is a serpent with one thousand heads which form the conch and canopy of fato while sleeping during the intervals of creation. His heads are decked with jewels and his hood is called aran. The rays of the jewels on the hood of 79. who forms the bed of fare in the great ocean, resemble the sprouts of a bulbous root, namely, the jewel IEGH which is pressed against and covered by the breasts of Zeht. On the breast of falu there are the peculiar marks of the curl known as थ्रीवत्स and the jewel called कौस्तुभ. The com. remarks: A (note its use at the beginning of a sentence) et: सिन्धौ शय्याकृतशेषफणामणिकान्तयः स्नेहालिङ्गितलक्ष्मीस्तननिपीडितकोस्तुभकन्दारा इव राजन्ते । उभय. कान्तिसाम्यमित्यर्थः ।. उवहि for उदधि, besides उअहि or उयहि, is phonetically justified and found elsewhere too: it is an illustration of a which is more common in 87987. Trivikrama knows the first line as in J; he quotes a portion thus: 9.01 foražar in his Prakrit grammar (1. i. 22). On the use of fe at the beginning of a sentence, S. P. Pandit observes thus: 'ihe use of the particle kila at the head of senter ce......so far as I know, is only found in Sanskrit works by Jain writers' (Galavaho, p. v, Bombay 1887). 5*1 (B) ) This gathā is reconstructed by the Editor from the Sanskrit commentary. It is a good Mangala, and is found only in B. The context does not suffer, even if it is omitted. Its presence in B is a fact though one may reconstruct it with
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