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gains. The columns of smoke from the fires of sacrifices bore an allusion about Ayodhyā being a maiden endowed with curly locks. This fact evinces Dhanapāla's faith in the Vedic ritual.? He had the conception of the righteous age before him when he thought of the virtuous. Conduct of the virtuous people in Ayodhyā (covertly Dhārā under Bhoja). The assemblies of the Dvijas (Brāhmanas, Ksatriyas and Vaisyas or Brāhmaṇas exclusively) gave him the idea of the Brahmaloka or the world of the Vedic seers. The sages of efficacious powers as well as the heretical sects worked conjointly to obviate sin. Or the heretical sects of the sages of renowned eminence obviated evil. The professors of the Vedic lore (Śruti) had a penchant for muttering of holy syllables and hence made the country endowed with a happy reflection. The arrays of sacrifices and the recitations of the Sāmaveda made the Dvijas (Brāhmanas) exultant. He has described the influence of the Vedic gods Visvakarman (the divine architect), Prajāpati (Brahmā) and the goddess Laksmī on the mansions, their inhabitants and the small chambers and even of all the gods (Visvedevas Devatāsahasraih).
He has referred to the exponents of the Vaisnava cult who could enter fire in order to vindicate themselves through the ordeals ordained for expiation as a result of the prevailing evil ordaining thereby the prevalence of righteousness by their sacrifice or the Vaisnavites alone took to the path of Krsna or the way of life ordained by Krsna (an incarnation of Vişnu). People had a firm faith in the observance of propitiatory rites meant to obviate evil.'' The Sun is believed to have his charioteer in Aruņa being a representative of the natural phenomena of ruddy glow preceding the pervasion of the actual radiance, the mark of activity for the populace, a king (here Meghavāhana) believed to be a peer to him (i.e. the Sun in corporeal form encompassing the extremities of the four repositories of
1. HEYFIHH f uauhfas: 1 - TM. vol. I p. 53. 2. farfaraleicha Han f eft: -Ibid. 3. Hennyira Hry HER:
marilaha furahTG: 1 -Ibid. pp. 53-54. 4. Ibid. pp. 53-54. 5. faddrafft..... Traustfugtehul-Ibid. Vol. I. 54. 6. p fef4:.... STRATÀ: HETATI - Ibid. Vol. I p. 54. 7. Rf6f4: 914Ra... 31 TIGHT - Ibid. Vol. I p. 54. 8. विश्वकर्मसहस्ररिव निर्मितप्रासादा, प्रजापतिसहस्ररिवोत्पादितपौरा,
Saare afrafalgacy - Ibid. Vol. I p. 54. 9. Surahisi yax: - Ibid. Vol. I p. 58. 10. GRANT 7**fti - Ibid. Vol. I p. 58.
लक्ष्मीसहस्ररिव
परिगृहीतगृहा,
