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splendid by the lion-throne of crystal with a foot-stool in the air as if by glory ; setting his feet gracefully, like a king-goose, on golden lotuses moved by the gods; his dress untouched by sharp-pointed thorns, their faces turned down as if wishing to enter the earth from fear; attended by all the seasons at the same time as if to make atonement for the evil of assistance to Ananga (Love) ; homage being made to him from afar, as it were, by the tall trees on the roads by their bent heads, even though they were without consciousness; being attended constantly by a favorable wind, gentle and cool, like a breeze from a fan ; his path ahead crossed by birds flying over to the right, as if they knew, “There is no good fortune for those on the left of the Master"; made illustrious by gods and demons to the number of a crore at least engaged in coming and going, like an ocean with its tidal-waves; adorned with an umbrella in the sky like a moon that has light even by day from the power of devotion; fanned by chauris white as the waves of the Gangā, like separate treasuries of wealth of the moon's rays; surrounded by lacs of the best ascetics, glowing from penance and gentle, like the moon surrounded by stars; enlightening the souls capable of emancipation at every village and every city, like the sun the lotuses in every river and every pool; wandering over the earth covered with villages, mines, cities, towns approached by land and water, poor towns, towns approached by land or water, isolated villages, hermitages, towns with earthen walls, etc.
Description of Aștāpada (78–101) Then the Teacher of the World, most venerable in invocation, ascended the lofty mountain, eight yojanas high, like a heap of autumn-clouds gathered in one place; like a mass of solidified waves of the Ocean of Milk that had been brought; high-peaked like a long-horned bull—one of Pupandara's bulls made at the birth-bath-that had been
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