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means of thousands of showers of His water, for the riches of the noblest have their purpose effected by the alliviation of the sufferings of suffering mortals. He should not give out very loud thundering sounds there in the caverns of the mountain so that the śarabhas, there, become ill-mannered owing to their being proud of their valour, possessing rapidity in their act of jumping high up in anger, who might be suddenly surprising Him, keeping out of their way, only to tear down their own bodies, might not have any fear, depriving them of their lives, from Him. If those beasts, exceedingly deprived of intellectual qualities, exerting only for tearing down their own bodies, would possibly surprise Him on account of their passion being excited by His thunderings, then He should put them to rout by heavy hail-storms. As devotion only is described as the excellent means of destroying sin, He, bowing down in devotdion, should circumambulate the foot print of Lord Jina, the preceptor of all the three worlds, distinctly manifested on a stone there, worthy of being worshipped by a god wearing a crown bearing a mark of the crescent-moon, worshipped by the demigods that are highly respected. May He, on seeing which the devotees with their sins shaken off completely establish a holy place of Siddhas [ the souls attaining salvation] after the abandonment of their bodies, become purified.
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full faith in the foot-print, would become everlasting position attained by hosts of sages. of the foot-print, the bamboos, being filled with wind, desirous of having as if a discourse upon the musical instruments, would be producing sweet sounds indeed. The victory over the three bodies would be sung there by the Kinnara Ladies, devoted very much, desirous of worshipping Jina, the lord of the world. If His thundering sound would be echoing in the valleys like the sound of a drum in the drum itself when the bamboos would be giving out deep and very loud sounds clearly at the time of
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