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RĀJAPRAŚNIYA SUTRA etc. & on all sides, even so these gods in the service of the God Sūryābha created by their magic, a thunderstorm, and quickly produced the thundering sound, & lightning, and sprinkled a shower of divine and fragrantly scented water on all sides of the Lord Mahāvīra for about a yojana; (at the same time, the shower) did not contain too much water, did not produce too much mud, but only sparsely sprinkled (lit, touched,) the earth and dispelled all particles of dust; (page 46] then they put down, destroyed, removed, suppressed and settled down all dust and then immediately came to a stop. Then, again for the third time they transformed their bodies by magic mutation, and created by magic, a storm full of flowers (i.e. showering flowers). Just as, e.g. there might be a gardener's boy, young ..upto... endowed with crafts, having taken a basket or a wickerbasket or a box, full of flowers, might render the courtyard in the palace etc. as also all the vicinity, full of the formal offerings of clusters of five-coloured flowers dropped down from the hair while being held by the hand (at the time of Love's sport), even so the Abhiyogika gods created by their magic a flowery storm, then quickly produced the thundering sound ..(upto)..round about an area of one yojana they filled the place upto the knees with a shower of plenty of five-coloured flowers growing on land as well as on water, and standing on their stems (i.e. plucked with stems). Then they rendered the place fragrant with the aroma of Kālāguru, fine Kundurukka, and Turukka, and rendered it odorous with sweet-smelling fine scents, a very incense-wafer. And having made it worthy to be visited by the best among
the gods, they suddenly stopped. They then went to the Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
