Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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zigzag course, drawing circles on the two sides of the cave at the end of each yoiana. Forty-nine circles .producing light were made, one to each yojana, with a diameter of five hundred bows. These remained, and the mouth of the cave was open so long as the illustrious Cakravartin lived on earth. By the light of the circles, the army advanced without stumbling, comfortably following the King who was following the cakra. In the light of the jewel the cave shone with the Cakravartin's advancing army like the center of Ratnaprabhā with forces of Asuras, etc. By the army advancing in cakra-formation the cave was filled with a vast noise, like a churn by a churning-stick. The road in the cave, marked by straight lines at once by the chariots, with stones broken by the horses' hooves, became like a city street, though unfrequented. Because of the armypeople inside it, the cave became like the lokanāli 29' made horizontal.
In the middle of Tamisrā, the King came to the two rivers Unmagnā and Nimagnā resembling girdles for a garment. They had been made by the mountain like letters of command in the guise of rivers for men coming from the north and south of Bharataksetra. In the one even a stone rises like a gourd ; in the other even a gourd sinks like a stone. Coming from the east wall of Tamisrä, going out through the west wall, they unite in the Sindhu. Then the carpenter made a path across them which was beyond criticism, like a long secret couch of the god of Mt. Vaitāļhya. The path was produced in a moment by the Cakrabhịt's carpenter. For there was no delay of material from the Gehākāra-trees. Though made from many stones, their joints were fitted so closely that it looked as if made of
54, p. 226. Pravac, 1213-17, p. 350. The descriptions agree with this one and add the facts that it was the shape of a goldsmith's anvil, was made of gold, and could remove poison.
299 315. The same as trasanādı. See App. I.