Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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tilaka zo and auspicious marks being made, wearing a divine jeweled necklace that was like an arm thrown in an embrace about his neck by the Sri of victory; resplendent with a banner showing insignia just like a state-elephant, holding a sword, wearing on his hip a dagger like power embodied, carrying two large golden quivers of a straight shape like two arms made by magic for fighting even in the rear, surrounded by heads of organizations, generals, merchants, caravan-leaders, like an heirapparent by treaty-agents, spies, etc., the general mounted the elephant-jewel tall as a mountain, keeping the seat of honor unshaken as if he had been born with the seat. Adorned, like a chief-god, with a white umbrella and chauris, he urged on the elephant by signals with his toes. After he had reached the bank of the Sindhu with half of the King's army, he halted, making a dam, as it were, from the dust that had risen.
The general touched with his hand the skin-jewel which expands for twelve yojanas when it has been touched. Grain sowed on it at dawn ripens at the end of the day, and it is able to carry people across the waters of rivers, ponds, oceans. When the skin-jewel was thrown on the water, by its inherent power it spread from bank to bank like oil. The general and his army crossed to the far bank of the pathless river by the skin-jewel as if by a path. Wishing to conquer the whole southern district of the Sindhu the general advanced like the ocean at the end of the world. Eager for battle, cruel with a roar in the form of the twang of the bow, like a lion he conquered the Sinhalas easily. He made the Barbaras subject to himself like bought slaves. He marked the Tarkanas with the royal mark
298 255. Prāyaścittakautukamangala. Kautuka is defined as tilakādi': mangala as dadhidūrvāksatāni tāny eva prāya duhsvapnādi vidhvansakāni krtāni.' KS. 1.67, Subodhikāvștti, p. 62b. KSK. adds mustard to the list of auspicious things. See also Uv. 7.208, n. 299, and B. p. 22, n. 4.