Book Title: Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1
Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
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clothes by water. O Master, your name 'Rṣabhanatha whispered becomes a charm for the attraction of all the magic powers. There is no thunderbolt for dividing, no spear for cutting those creatures who have the armor of devotion to you.
After praising the Blessed One in these words, and having his hair erect from happiness, the crest-jewel of kings left the temple. He took adamantine armor adorned with gold and rubies, just like a garment for the wedding of the Sri of victory. With that shining armor, the King looked like the lord of sea-monsters (the ocean) with a dense mass of coral-trees. The King put a helmet on his head, which resembled the beauty of a cloudpavilion encircling a mountain-peak. On his back he fastened quivers filled with iron arrows resembling a chasm of Patala filled with a lot of serpents. On his left arm, the King carried a bow resembling the staff of Yama raised at the time of the destruction of the world. Blessed first by the chief family-priests saying "Success!" greeted by cries of "Long live! Long live!" by the old women of his clan; hailed with "Rejoice! Rejoice!" by his old friends; acclaimed with loud cries of "Long be victorious!" by bards, the King ascended the great elephant, supported by the driver's hand, like Indra the peak of Meru.
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Preparation of Bharata (389-413)
Now, Śri Bharatesa, virtuous-minded, went to the temple-the treasury of the Sri of good fortune. There he, noble-minded, bathed the image of Adinatha, with water brought from the tirthas, Padma, etc. on his tour of conquest. The tiger of kings rubbed the image-which has no counterpart-with a fine cloth, like an expert artisan a jewel. He anointed the image with gośirsa-sandal given by the Prince of Hima and others, like the earth with his own splendor. He made a herb for transfixing the eye in the form of a pūjā with blooming lotuses resembling the lotuses which are the abodes of Padma
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