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sound reaches our ears, it is not heard or understood owing to deep sound of trumpets.
6. 96 TOT, army of # ( 74 ), god of love.
13. 13-14, The meaning of the lines is: q was born in the court heaven, and had a white complexion (faut and very bright lustre. On seeing this lustre of पद्मप्रभ, the wife or wives of पुष्पदन्त,i.e., of चन्द्र and सूर्य, felt that their lustre was nothing before his lustre and thus became blackened.
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5. 96 Adfe a 919gourg, like crops ( ATH, FT) sown in series of plough share marks ( at ). # is a deść word meaning a line drawn by the ploughshare (हलविदारित भूमिरेखा) and is still preserved in Marathi in the form of तास.
6. 12. faturaufe ifas TET as, the milk which was used for bathing the fun, could not be distinguished as its colour was identical with the complexion of the जिन; an instance of मीलितालंकार.
11. 5a maag pins af fafout, put the figure 3 after 9; araas are nine, The whole passage gives the figure 93 which is the number of Torts of 954. 10-11. These lines mention the eight प्राविहार्यs such as पिडीगम, i.e., अशोकवृक्ष. The position of these starts in the middle of the list of the followers of this unusual,
XLVII 4, 3a 4-es fe TTHE, he avoids places where there is the tree (973, 27 ) of anger. The variant in P, 'ary' is clearly an easier substitute for .
6. 9a-6 The child, looking at its mother and also at her reflected image, was comfounded and felt it had two mothers ( athrug Ahrath ) and so was unable to decide which was his real mother,
XLVIII
1. 19 गुणभद्दगुणीहिं जो संथुउ, he i. e., the tenth तीर्थंकर who is glorified by the revered sage गुणभद्र. We know that गुणभद्र is the pupil of जिनसेन the author of the Sanskrit आदिपुराण. जिनसेन's work was continued after his death by गुणभद्र, which is called the 3775TTT. The expression Treufe may also be interpreted "by pious monks possessing auspicious qualities.”
4. 14 तं पट्टणु कंचणु घडि, that city was made or built of gold. कंचणु stands for काञ्चनं, i.e., काञ्चनमयम्. AP read कंचणघडिउं as the copyists did not understand the meaning above of कंचणु.
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