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The Ajita-purāņa of Ranna
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is only the water of the deep milk sea that can be enough! >>, as Indra said this, the mountain of the immortals (Mēru) came and stood from the divine mountain up to the divine ocean, forming a bridge for walking (II, 49)
And from the golden mountain, the divine ones, with divine bodies, holding golden jars reaching to the mild sea, in rows, imitated to stretched out arm of Indra. (II, 50)
With ghee from the ghee ocean, pure milk from the milk ocean, and curds from the rather solid curd ocean, Indra perforrned the consecration ablution of the Jina lord. (II, 53).
All this flowed and spread from the golden jars for the ultimate Jina's bath; the thousand-eyed one (Indra) suddenly had 1000 arms, resembling a whirling water wheel. (II, 54)
Like a blossoming petal, the tiger-claw ornaments, the jewelled tinkling belt, the ear-rings, the pearl foot ornament, the bracelets, the jewelled anklets, to all this beauty add his dripping saliva, also charming, as the One Ornament of the Earth took on the ornament of small childhood. (III, 1)
Just as the Sun rose, together with the brilliances of the day, all the knowledges of his former life came and stayed with the Treasury of all knowledge. (III, 2)
All the parts of enlightenment that come from avadhi-knowledge, understanding, and religious learning were known to the Master of Knowledge, and since this Master of initiation knew them, he was his own master. (III, 3)
The gods came in the form of children to play with the little Jina child, and had delight at this (III, 4)
The gods could take the forms of elephants, goats, or strong men, but the child Ajita had little liking for these kinds of games. (III, 5)
His father and mother came and said, << Don't you want the ointments, clothes, and ornaments sent to you by Indra and the others? Don't you want to eat, to bathe? You must be hungry, come now, child! >> Only at their insistence did Ajita agree to baths, food, drink, and fragrant ointments: the divine one was free of all desires. (III, 6)
To be sure, this king's son sometimes felt hunger and thirst, but he never said anything: his desire was more a bewilderment at sorrow, elation, and slackness of spirit. (III, 7)
(Ajita reaches maturity, and marries, against his own will, to please his parents, and becomes king when Jitasatru abdicates to take Jain initiation)
Falling, blazing to the eye, suddenly no support for the pillar of mind's confusion! Falling, like attachment to the senses,
so high before, in the sky, a meteor fell! (III, 26) And as Ajita saw this, something was revealed to him:
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