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Royal Palace, filling the earth and the sky, and uttering ceaseless cries of Victory.' Then Sachi. the Queen of the First Heaven; took the new-born Babe in her arms, and carried Him to her Consort, the Indra. Together they started for the Abhiseka ceremony, followed by the entire host of deva tribes and clans. There is a vast rocky platform on the top of Mount Meru on which the ceremony of bathing the Gods takes place. The celestial procession soon reached this rocky platform, and there performed: the divine abhişeka, amid great rejoicings. They seated the Divine Child on a Throne set with precious stones, and poured many pitchersful of water from a distant ocean over His head. The little divine Baby was not affected injuriously by the ceremonial bath. All those who are destined to attain to salvation are born in their last earthly incarnation with a bony formation that is possessed of adamantine strength. They cannot be cut, pierced or destroyed in any way. This is the effect of the great austerities they have performed in their previous lives! The Tirthamkaras have also got the adamantine formation of the bony skeleton, and are not affected by external physical forces or calamity.
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BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD
Sachi decorated the person of the Lord of the Three Worlds with her own hands, after the
