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2 Silk garment is produced from worms, gold from lotus, millet-grass from the hair of cows, day-lotus from mire, the moon from the sea, and a bee is produced from cow-dung.
At the end of the preaching, konika embraced Śrāvakadharina preached by the Tirthankaras, and on looking at Jambu Muni and other aisciples of Sudharmā Swāmin, he inquired out of curiosity:
श्रीसुधर्मगुरो ! कोऽयं, द्विपेष्विव सुरधिपः । सुधांशुरिवधिष्णेषु, त्रिदियाद्रिरिवाद्रिषु ॥ १॥ शालिधान्यमिवान्नेषु, कल्पद्रुम इव द्रुषु । अम्भोधिष्विव दुग्धाभि-चम्पकं कुसुमेष्विव ।। २ ।। हिरण्यमिव लोहेषु, रसेष्विव सुधारसः।
अद्भुतस्तव शिष्येषु, सविवेषः प्रदीप्यते ॥३॥ 1. Śri Sudharma Guro ! ko'yam, dyipesviva sura-dvipah ,
Sudhānsurivadhismesu, tridivádrrivādrişul. 2. Salıdhānyamivānneyu, Kalpa-druma iva drusu;
Ambhodhışviva dugdhābdhiscampakam kusūmeşviva.
3. Hiraṇyamiva lohesu, rasesviva suahārasah;
Adbhutastava šisyeşu sa-visesah pradipyate.
1-3. O Sudharma Guru! Among this group of your disciples, who is this disciple of yours, who shines out more brilliantly, miraculously like an Indra's elephant among elephants, like the Moor aniong meteors, like the celestial mountain (Mount Méru) among mountains, like rice among corn-grains, like TE# Kalpa-uruma, the fabulous wishing tree among trees, like the Ocean of Milk among seas, like the Campaka flower (Michelia Champaca ) among towers, like gold among iron (objects), and like nectar, among objects of taste ?
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