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258 The King arrived at the seven-storied ancestral palace, very charming with elephants set up on both sides of the courtyard like tall pleasure-peaks of the King's Laksmi; resplendent with a door very beautiful with golden pitchers on both sides, like a broad stream with two cakravākas; adorned by a very beautiful festoon entirely of mango leaves, like a sapphire necklace; auspicious with svastikas sometimes made of quantities of pearl beads, sometimes from camphor-dust, sometimes from moonstone; having rows of pennants, some of China silk, some of fine cotton cloth, some of devadusyacloth; its courtyard sprinkled in some places with camphor-water, in some places by juices distilled from flowers, and in other places by the ichor of elephants; with a sun at rest, as it were, in the guise of a golden finial. Setting foot on the covered platform in the front courtyard, the King descended from the elephant, supported by the door-keeper. Like an ācārya, he made a puja to his sixteen thousand guardian-divinities, and dismissed them. Likewise he dismissed the thirty-two thousand kings, the general, the priest, the steward, and the carpenter. The King sent the three hundred and sixtythree cooks to their respective homes by a glance, like elephants to a hitching-post. He dismissed the merchants, guardians of the fortresses of the eighteen guilds and the sub-guilds, 815 and the leaders of caravans, like guests at the end of a festival.
Accompanied by the woman-jewel, Subhadrā, like Śakra by Saci, and by thirty-two thousand queens of royal birth, surrounded by as many daughters of leaders
815 662. The list of 18 guilds is given in Jamb. 43, p. 193.
I. Kumbhāra (kumbhakāra), potter. 2. Pattailla (deši), head of a village. H. patel. 3. Suvannakāra (suvarpakāra), goldsmith. 4. Sūvakāra (sūpakāra), cook. 5. Gandhavva (gandharva), musician. 6. Kāsavaga (kāśyapa), barber.
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