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Good conduct was her ornament. Ornaments are for the sake of dignity. Before Sundari in this state, even Subhadra, the woman-jewel, with her wealth of beauty looked like a slave girl. Whatever any one asked, Sundari, fair in conduct, gave him unhesitatingly, like a living wishing-vine. Resplendent in garments white as camphor-dust, she entered the palanquin, like a hansa a lotus-pond. Sundari, like Marudevi, was followed by the King, the ground covered with elephant-drivers, horsemen, infantry, and chariots. Fanned by two chauris, adorned with a white umbrella, praised by bards, with auspicious songs of the festival of mendicancy sung aloud by her brothers' wives, salt being waved 25 by noble women at every step, resplendent with many people accompanying her carrying full dishes, she arrived at Mt. Aṣṭāpada purified by the Master's feet.
Bharata and Sundari experienced exceeding joy when they saw the mountain occupied by the Master, like the eastern mountain with a moon. They ascended the mountain with a broad summit, like the first wide stairs to heaven and mokṣa. Then they reached the samavasarana, the refuge of those fearing existence, with four doors like the world on a small scale.826 The Lord of Bharata and Sundari entered the samavasarana by the north door as was correct. Their bodies swollen and contracted by delight and reverence, they made the pradakṣinā to the Supreme Lord three times. They bowed to the Supreme Lord touching the ground with five parts of the body, 827 as if eager to see him reflected in the jeweled surface of the earth. Then the Cakravartin began to praise the first Dharmacakravartin in beautiful speech pure with devotion.
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Uttaryamāṇalavaṇa. Salt and mustard are waved over a person's head to remove effects of evil eye, etc. Modern Guj. has the same expression, lun utarvuṁ.
326 772. See App. I. The wall around Jambudvipa has 4 gates. 827 775. With Jains the five parts are hands, knees, and forehead. They do not prostrate themselves.
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