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after she has completely enjoyed the fruit of her penance, (or whose enjoyments, which were the fruit of her penance, are exhausted), she was also mourning; all her masts and bows pounded, her keel and the deck that could accommodate thousands of men, were destroyed; her rudder was bent and appeared like a trident (?); iron-nails were falling down from the crevices of the planks and boards that were smashed and ripped asunder; she was (now) open on all sides; all her ropes were snapped and her (other) parts destroyed; she was like a raw (or unbaked) earthen-pot; she had become heavy with anxiety like the desires of a man who has done no merit; she was resounding with bewailing and plaintive sounds, and the cries of alas! alas! produced by the helmsmen, the crew, the merchants and the labourers on board the ship; she was loaded with precious stones and merchandise of various sorts; and hundreds of men on board the ship were weeping, shrieking, and mourning, being smitten with sorrow, and were lamenting; and (under these circumstances), she stranded on the peak of a mountain concealed in water, and with her masts and arches broken, with her flag.staff shattered, with hundreds of poles broken into pieces, she was wrecked with a crushing noise, there and then. And then as the ship was being wrecked (and drowned), all those men i also), with all their vast merchandise, were drowned in the sea. ...
(383). Then those (two) sons of (the merchant) Mākandī, who were very wise, dexterous, skilled, clever, sagacious, and endowed with skill in (various) crafts, and who were skilled and trained for all the most difficult tasks of manning a ship; who had many successes to their credit; who had their wits about them, and were of skilled hands found a big wooden plank. There was a large island named Ratnadvipa on the part of the sea where the ship was wrecked;-it was many yojanas in length and breadth, and many yojanas in circunference; it was graced with many trees and groves, beautiful, charming, agreeable, handsome and pleasing to the sight. In the midst of that (island), there was a very big palace, lofty and high ... upto ...
beautiful, charming etc. There in that palace lived a deity Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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