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From compassion guiding the Kośālas, like a son, to expertness in dharma ; making the Magadhas experienced in penance like his followers; making bloom the Kāśis, like the sun lotus-buds; rejoicing the Daśārņas like the moon the oceans; by the nectar of his sermon making conscious the Cedis like people who have fainted; crowning the yoke of dharma with the Mälayas like young bulls ; making the Gaurjaras like gods from the destruction of evil and distress; making strong the Saurāṣtras, like a physician, he went to Satruñjaya.
Description of Satruñjaya (396–416) In some places like Vaitāļhya in a foreign country because of its heaps of silver slabs; in other places like the slopes of Meru transferred here, with its piles of golden slabs; here with its jewel-mines like another Ratnācala; there with its herbs like Himādri put in another place; looking as if it had put on a jacket in the form of dense clouds clinging to it; as if an upper garment were hanging from the shoulder in the form of cascades; wearing a lofty diadem by day, as it were, in the form of the sun near its peak; wearing a sandal-tilaka by night in the form of the moon; with a thousand heads, as it were, in its peaks filling the sky; having many arms, as it were, in the form of tall palm trees; crowded with monkeys falling quickly on clusters of ripe reddish fruit in the tall groves of cocoa-nuts under the impression they were their own children; with Saurāṣtra-women engaged in picking mangoes and singing sweet songs to which the deer listened with pricked up ears; its table-lands filled with old ketakitrees with gray hair made, as it were, in the guise of thorns that had appeared ; just as if it had a row of auspicious tilakas made on the body by the sinduvāratrees 80% pale as sandal-paste, here and there ; with an imitation of the waved-leaf fig-tree and the banyan made by
802 404. The sinduvāra is generally identified with Vitex negundo. Vitex negundo, however has blue flowers, whereas sinduvāra is called
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