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commotion caused by the coming out from the nether world of the king of snakes. 26 fe qafe, with his thousand ( tentimes hundred) tongues. Preads gegeef which means two thousand tongues as the tongues of snakes are cut into two when they licked nectar lying on the darbha grass on the occasion of its distribution.
11. 86 रसवाद व सदं णिवडिय सुवण्णु, like the alchemist who always attempts to prepare gold out of baser metals, the mount as always showed gold.
12. 156 सुय यत्तणु हलिणिहि करंति, parrots act as messengers of ploughing women to carry their love-messsages to their lovers.
13. 96 The passage gives the list of fifty cities situated on the right. side of बेवड which are assigned to नमि.
14. 5a The passage gives the list of cities situated on the left hand side of a which were assigned to firfir. The cities are enumerated from west to ease ( वारुणासामुहाओ ).
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[Risaha then spent six months in meditation, and controlled the activities of his mind completely. He considered that reduction of food was one of the best means of attaining purity. He therefore decided to accept food which would be free from forty-six flaws, and pure from nine points of view. The principle of his life was that food exhausts the body, this reduction of food constitutes penance, this penance controls senses, the control of senses exhausts all acts which event leads to emancipation. He therefore practised these rules of life, and while wandering on the earth came to Gayapura where king Soma prabha, the son of Bahubali, was ruling. His younger brother, Seyamsa, saw in a dream the previous night objects like sun, moon etc. and told this dream to his brother. The fruit of this dream was that some great person was to visit his house, In fact Risaha did arrive the next day to his house to break his fast. Prince Seyamsa thereupon offered him reception and a jar of sugar-cane juice, which Risaha accepted. There was a divine voice to proclaim "what a noble gift 1". Risaha thereafter proceeded with his wanderings and in due course obtained the fourth knowledge called Mapapajjavanapa, knowledge by which minds of others are known. He then proceeded to Nandanavana, and under a bunyan tree acquired the Gupasthānas, and in due course attained kevalajñana by which he was able to see the entire universe. Gods arrived at this juncture to celebrate the event, and built up a
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