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doos service to him during his march for the conquest of the six continents or whenever desired.
These treasures are permanent and indestruetible. The treasures contalo divide and eternal books describing all the objects of the world. Another version is that objects mentioned under various subjects in the books, become manifest in the Individual treasure.
1. Nalsarpa (a) treasure presided over by god Naimarpa has a permanent book describing the arrangement of construc tion of villages, towns, capital cities, dropa mukha (accessible by water as well as by land), madambaka (a town without any village round about within a distance of 2% kosas), skandi-vāsas (camping stations for armies.) It also contains arrangements of various designs of construction of buildings.
2 Panduka (9 ) treasuro presided over, by a god of the same name, contains descriptions of standards of counting articles such as gold 'mohurs, cocoa-nuts, pearlo etc; of measuring corn with a measuring vessel; of weighing substances liko molasses, paddy, wheat, pulses; and various methods of measurlag, weighing ect,
3. Pinagla (for) treasure bas a book containing descrlppons of various kinds of ornaments for females and males. It also has descriptions of diferrnt kinds of horses and elephantu.
4. Sarva-ratnaka (atm ) treasure contains a description of the fourteen Tifa ratnāni-excellent gems and artlolas of a Çakravartin. Some say that these fourteen ratnas of the Cakm vartin become more, brilliant by the beniga influence of this Treasure.
5. Mahăpadma (699) treasure has a description of the processes of the manufac: ure of all varietles of garments, metaods of dyeing and printing, and different processes of washing them
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