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him. When the ablution-ceremony was cver, King Nandivardhana had #Lother lion-seated throne erected in the Norts and he had a washing-bath given to Sraimana Bhagavān Mabávira with gold pots full of clean water. The body of śramaņu Bhagavān Mahavira who was sliting on the throne with his face directed towards the East, decked with ornaments, was wiped dry with a scented soft ciotk, and liquid sandal påste was applied to his body. He put on celestial garments as white as crystal, wore a loin girdlë set with precious stones of five varieties, put on a neck-lace of pure peáris on his extensive chest resembling a marble slab of Kanakācala (the Rising Sun Mountain), and he had put on ear-rings in-laid with valuable gems brightly illuminating his cheeks. A diad-in of precious gems was piaceu on his head, and the Indras of the gods and demni-gods decorating him with flower-garlands of five colours and scented powders, paying homage to him with their beads bent low to the surface of the ground, and utter Ing hundreds of benedictions, began to praise him thus:-0 the only Brother of the World! May you, with the greatest ease, conquer in a moinent, the extremely powerful wrestler (i. e. Mogu ) who is invincible to the living beings of the three worlds incinding the gods and demi-gods. May you whow the Path of Final Beatitude to devout individuals following the wrong path by dispelling the darkness of False Belies by the rays of the Sun of Knowledge. May you carefully preserve your duties of ascetic life! May you conquer
Rága, Affection, Dvéşa, Hatred and other unconquerable passions till the time you are able to attain Kévala Jñana, and worshipsul Lord! May you have a resting place in our hearts ! May the gods make the directions reverberate everywhere by constantly singing your virtuous qualities! May your white fame spreading like the stamens of lotus flowers, throughout the three worlds, attain everywhere the beauty of the disc of the rising Full Moon ! May the deer-like bad religious pioneers, becoming agitated with fear on seeing your immense lion-like strength, run away to distant places 1" Having thus extolled the virtuous qualities of śramapa Bhagavān Mahävira
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