Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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fragrant reddish cloth. They anointed the King's body with a paste of gośīrşa-sandal which increased its beauty, like gold with red ocher. Then the gods put Rşabha Svāmin's crown, which had been given by Sakra, on the head of the chief of kings. They put on ear-rings like Citrā and Svāti,819 attendants to the moon of the face. On his neck they put a necklace strung with oyster-pearls with invisible threads, as if they had originated simultaneously in the form of a wreath. They put a halfnecklace on the King's breast, like a crown-prince to the necklace, the king of ornaments. They clothed the King in garments of devadusya-cloth whose color was as white as if they were from inside layers of mica. They threw around the King's neck a large wreath of flowers, like a shadow-rampart to the breast-abode of Śri. Adorned with priceless garments and jewels, the King, like a wishing-tree, adorned the pavilion which resembled a piece of heaven.
The chief of all men, having great intelligence, had his ministers summoned by door-keepers and instructed them as follows: "Sirs, go on elephants into every single street and make this city Vinitā free from customs duty, free from taxes, free from fines, free from unjust fines, free from the entry of soldiers, constantly rejoicing, for a period of twelve years." The officials did so immediately. The Cakrin's command is the fifteenth jewel for accomplishment of things to be done. Then the King arose from the jeweled lion-throne and the others rose also at the same time, like his reflections. The Lord of Bharata descended by the way he had come; in the same way the others descended the bath-dais like a mountain. Mounting the best of elephants, hard to restrain like his own splendor, the King, very energetic, went to his own palace. After going to its bath-house and bathing
319 691. The twenty-first and twenty-second constellations. K. p. 281. In the grouping of the constellations, Citrā and Svāti form the sixth group.