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enfeebled with greater sorrow than that of a strong thunderbolt-with his throat suffocated with agony, and becoming deeply engrossed in great anguish with lamentation and crying aloud, Bharata Cakravartin had a large dome-shaped monumental temple studded with precious stones built on the top of Mount Astāparla and ninety-nine small canopies for Bāhubali and his other brothers.
Besides, on the place of the Final Emancipation of Bhagavān Srt Rişabha-deva Swāni, a huge temple three koshes bigh and one yojana in area with a lion-seated throne, presided over by twenty-four images of Tîrthařkaras made of jewels of their individual colour and size, with charming bright festoons of wel-come tied in arched portals appearing beautiful with dolls stationed at various places, with gold vases decorated with excellent flowers of five colours placed on both the sides of the doors and covered with fragrant white lotuses; where the directions have become darkened by the smoke of the incense prepared with blaok aloe, benzoin, camphor, and other fragrant substances; in which goddesses had been dancing in a circle with the accompaniment of rhythmical clapping of hands, and celestial musicians were singing with zealous devotion; where the atmosphere resounded with the tunes of varieties of benedictory verses by heavenly beings possessing magical powers and by ascetics with Cāraṇa Lahdhi, and which was furnished with mechanical contrivances made of iron which served as door-bolts-was built by Bharata Cakravartipa temple which was like a boat to people being drowned in the ocean of Samsāra, and which appeared beautiful with white flags moving to and fro by gentle wind. It appeared beautiful as if it were the pippacle of the bright fame of the kings of Ikşvāku Race visibly established on the Earth, like Mount Kailās. The entire portion of its turrets was surrounded by a covering of clouds despatched by winds, and hordes of drones were hovering near it as if on hall-opened buds of night-lotuses.
Besides, on looking at the white flags set in motion by the wind, it seems to me that the fame of the celestial river (Ganges)
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