Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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each direction, 150 and by other powerful princes also, the Asura got into a car fifty thousand yojanas square, adorned with a great banner five hundred yojanas high, which had been made at once by an Abhiyogya-god, and set out with the desire to perform the birth-Festival of the Master. Having contracted his car on the road like Sakra, the Asura Camara went to Meru's peak purified by the Master's arrival. Bali, the Asura-lord of Balicañcā, attended by sixty thousand Sāmānikas who had been summoned by the general Mahādruma, who first rang vigorously the bell Mahaughasvarā, and by the fourfold body-guard, the Trāyastriñías and the other gods, like Camara, went quickly to Mt. Mandara, the home of joy. The Indra of the Nāgas, Dharana, accompanied by six thousand Sāmānikas, the fourfold body-guard and six chief queens, and by other Nāgas awakened by the general Bhadrasena by ringing the bell Maghasvárā, ascended the jeweled car twenty-five thousand yojanas square, adorned with an Indradhvaja two hundred fifty yojanas high, eager for a sight of the Blessed One, and in a moment stopped on the peak of Mt. Mandara. Bhutānanda, the Nāga-indra, attended by the Sāmānikas and others summoned by Daksa, the chief of the infantry, ringing the bell Meghasvarā, ascended the car made by an Abhiyogika-god and went to Mt. Meru occupied by the Lord of the Three Worlds.
The Indras of the Vidyutkumāras, Hari and Harisaha; the Vasavas of the Suparņas, Veņudeva and Venudārin; the Indras of the Agnikumāras, Agniśikha and Agnimāṇava; and of the Samiraṇakumāras, Velamba and Prabhañjana; the chiefs of the Stanitas, Sughoşa and Mahāghoşa; likewise of the Udadhikumāras, Jalakānta and Jalaprabha; Pūrņa and Avašişța, the Purandaras
158 448. I.e., the total was 256,000.