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of the smoke of Kālågaru (black aloes) mixed with excellent camphor; beautified with pitchers filled with water placed on door-portals, and covered with expanded lotus-flowers; with the darknese removed by the brilliance of Walls made of pure emeralds; where flags furnished with rioging small bells of gold are flying in the air; where heavy bunches of pearles are hanging at different places; and whose bind portion is encircled by an excellent Vedikā(Vedi-shaped pavilion) made of emeralds and gems of varlous kinde. Immediately on seeing Saudharmendra enjoying divine happiness, Camarendra under an impulse of eavy and anger, tho!ight:-'Ahl who is this eyilminded: Seeker alter ill famel Shameless! a disgrace to the host of gods! and desirous of entering the month of Käle (the God of Death) at an unseasonable time, who residing above my head is fearlessly amusing himself enjoying celestial happiness above the head of one who is the King of all asuras (demons).?" "With this idea in bis mind, Camarendra called together all the gods sitting in the council-hall of his Sámánika gods and also the gods who were to be consulted in case of doubt, and asked them;- "Who is this wicked person above my head?" With an anjali in front of their fore-heads and with an applaud of victory, they replied: -'O beloved of the gods! He is the illustrious, highly lustrous, Sandharmadhipati - the Indra of gods bimself whose order is irresistible ! On hearing this, Camaréndra with his face terrific by highly raised eye brows caused by violent anges, said:-0 gods! You are not familiar with with my former enterprises and you are consequently led to praise an Indra with a retinue of a few gods, in this way. He is placed on a higher level; will that alone bring him relatively higher respectable condition? Will an owl sitting on the top of a tree, attain the splendour of a peacock? Besides, a heavy substance place on the scale pan of a weighing machine always settles down to the bottom, while a light substance rides high. He is inferior to me. Just as, some one acquires the royal power of a greak king althongh he may have been born in the family of a candāla (man of the lowest. caste), in the same way, he attained svarga (heaven) although he did sinful acts. O gods! he remained
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