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bathing burned incense to themselves with fragrant incense; some of the infantry who had eaten first enjoyed themselves as they liked; some with their wives anointed their body with unguents. In the Cakravartin's camp which had every resource for gaining pleasure, no one considered himself in a camp at all.
When a day and night had passed, 280 again at dawn the cakra-jewel and the Cakravartin went one yojana. By daily marches of one yojana, following the cakra, the Cakrin arrived at Magadhatirtha. The King established a camp nine yojanas broad and twelve yojanas long on the bank of the eastern ocean. In it the carpenter made houses for all the soldiers and a pauṣadhahouse 281_the house of the elephant of dharma. The King, with the desire of performing religious practices in the pausadha-house, descended from the elephant's shoulder, as a lion descends a mountain. In it (the house) the King spread a new bed of darbha-grass, resembling the lion-throne of the Laksmi of the realm of self-restraint. Concentrating his mind on the deity, the Magadhatirthakumāra, he engaged in four days' fast, the foremost door to the accomplishment of desires. Wearing a white garment, his finery, wreaths, and ointments removed, his weapons laid aside, he began the pa sadha, the herb for the nourishment of merit. On the bed of darbha-grass, the King remained watching through the pausadha, free from worldly activities like a siddha in moksa At the end of the four days' fast, the pauṣa dha completed, the King come out of the pausadhahouse, like the sun from an autumn-cloud, extremely brilliant. The King, expert in everything, after bathing made the oblation-ceremony properly. For people who know the rules do not forget the rule.
The best of charioteers mounted the chariot, which
280 78. The day and night' included the march and rest. 281 81. A place in which to observe the pausadha-yow.
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