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9. By the drinking of the nectar of the speech of the Jinéśvara
that assembly became steady as of engraved in stone with a small chisel or made steady with a strong adamantine plaster. Also, by looking at the face of the Jinéśvara with un-winking eyes, the multitudes of lower animals and human beings, seemed beautiful as if they acquired the wealth of becoming celestial beings
At Madhyama Apăpă Nagari. At that time, there lived in the Madhyama Apāpă Nagari, a very wealthy Brahmana nained Somulijja-who was busy with sat-karman (the six permissible occupations viz adhyayana, adhyāpana, yajna, våga, dāna, pratigraha of a Brāhmaṇa) and who was very resolute in the religious practicies enjoined in his Šāstras and desirous of attaining svarga (heaven), commenced a yażna in a locality outside the town and he had invited eleven adhyāpakas (teachers) who were well-versed in fourteen vidyās ( art and sciences --- who were clever in interpretations of the meanings of the verses of Four Védas-who could laugh out Brihaspati ( the God of Wisdom and Eloquence) by the pride of their individual intellect-and who were accompanied by hundreds of disciples froin distant parts of the country Many other Brahmins such as Upīdhyāya, saiikara, Ishvara, Shivji, Jāni, Gangādhara, Mahıdhara, Bhüdhara, Laxmidhara, Pindyā, Vi, Mukunda, Govinda, Purushottama, Naraya' a, Davé, Sripati, Umāpati, Vidyāpati, Gaņapatı, Jayadeva, Vyasa, Mahadeva, Shivadeva, Muld-va, Sukhadeva, (angapatı, Gauripati, Trivādı- Srikantha, Nilakantha, Harihara - B:1krishina, Yadurām, Ráma, Rainācārya, Raula, Madhusudania, Narasinha, Kamalāshanker, Somésvara, Harishanker, Trikama, Joshi, Ramji, Shivrām, Dévarim, Govindrām, Raghurāni, Udirām and others had assembled there
Although thousands of Brāhmus had assembled at the house of Somila, the most prominent among them were the eleven learned
11/27pikas teachers who were specially invited there for the performance of the Yajna ceremony The eleven learned teachers were 1. Indrabhuti 2 Agnibhiti 3 Váyubhūtt 4. Vyakta 5. Sudha
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