Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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- like Indra on the shoulder of the best of bhadra-ele
phants, like a young lion on a mountain-ridge; his head resplendent with a jeweled diadem with waves of splendor, like Amarācala with its crest; wearing pearl earrings that resembled the moons of Jambūdvipa come to
ve him, whose beauty was surpassed by the beauty of his face; wearing on his heart a necklace made of large pearls that was like a rampart on the temple of Lakşmi; having armlets of genuine gold on his upper arms, just as if tall trees in the form of arms had been surrounded by new creepers; wearing on his wrists pearlbracelets like a mass of foam on the bank of the stream of loveliness; wearing rings that filled the sky with shoots of beauty like large jewels on his hands resembling serpent-hoods ; 229 adorned with a fine white jacket clinging to his body so it could not be distinguished from sandal-ointment; wearing a garment rivaling the beautiful heap of waves of the Mandākini, just like the moonlight on a night of full-moon; shining with an under garment bright with various colors, like a mountain with the ground at its foot bright with various minerals; whirling in his hands a thunderbolt like a powerful kuţikā 180 for the sport of drawing here the Sris; with the heavens filled with cries of "Hail! Hail!” from a throng of bards, powerful Bahubali went to the grove purified by the Master's feet.
Descending from the elephant's shoulder, like Garuda from the sky, abandoning royal insignia, umbrella, etc., 1 he entered the garden. The son of Vrşabha saw the
garden without the Master, like the sky deprived of the moon, like a nectar-pitcher without the nectar. “Where, pray, is the Venerable Blessed One who gives joy to the eyes ?" he eagerly asked all the gardeners.
220 360. I.e., traditionally, serpent-hoods contain jewels.
380 364. Of uncertain meaning. Obviously something with which one can pull, perhaps a 'crook.'