Book Title: Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1
Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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________________ 240 General Suşeņa armed himself like a king of the Rākşasas to devour all the enemies' soldiers. The golden armor, which became exceedingly tight from the body swelling from eagerness, looked like another skin of the general. The general mounted the king of horses that was like, victory in person, eighty fingers in height, 508 ninety-nine in circumference, one hundred and eight in length; his head was thirty-two fingers long, gradually arched; the ear was four fingers; the upper part of the leg twenty, the shank sixteen, the knee four, the hoof four fingers high; the belly round and winkled; his back was broad, well-proportioned, curved and soft, covered with hair soft as threads of very fine cloth; having twelve auspicious locks of hair curled backwards; marked with favorable marks; his color attained by beautiful youth, pale like that of a parrot's tail-feathers; free from blows with a whip; following his rider's thought; embraced by the arms of Śri, as it were, in the guise of a bridle of jewels and gold; with sweet sounds from a multitude of small golden bells tinkling, as if worshipped with lotus-wreaths with bees buzzing inside; his face was like an ornament of a pennant of extraordinary beauty with the rays of ornaments of gold joined with five-colored jewels; with a tilaka of a golden lotus like the sky marked by Mars; having two extra ears, as it were, in the guise of chauri-ornaments; attracted by the Cakrin's merit like a vehicle by Indra's thought; setting down his arched feet as if they were sinking from a caress; like Suparņa in another form, like the wind embodied, his power seen in the crossing of one hundred yojanas in a moment; skillful in transporting 808 382. The description of the horse-jewel does not quite tally with that of the perfect horse, according to the Sukraniti. His head should be 40 angulas long, and the rest of his body in proportion to his head. The height should be three times the length of the head; the length four times; circumference three times plus three angulas. The equine aigula is five barley corns, whereas the elephantine angula is eight. Sukraniti 4. 7. 43 ff. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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