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like a simisimās tree $95 drops of water. With his retinue and women of his family, oppressed by pain hard to restrain, the son of Rṣabha set out on foot to Aṣṭāpada. He disregarded the stones harsh to his feet. Pain is not felt at all because of sorrow as well as joy. Streams of blood flowed from his feet injured by stones; the course of his footsteps looked as if it were marked with red lac.
The King ignored the people offering conveyances, thinking, "There must be no delay to my going, even for the moment necessary to get in a conveyance." Even though he had an umbrella over his head, he was very heated as he went. Surely the heat of the mind is not extinguished even by a rain of nectar. Absorbed in grief, he put aside the people offering their hands like ends of branches hanging down on the road. He passed quickly the door-keepers ahead, like a boat traveling on a river passing the trees on the bank. The Cakrin, eager to go as fast as thought, did not consider the chauri-bearers stumbling at every step because of the speed. The King did not know that his pearl necklace, which was shaken constantly because of his speed, was broken by striking against his chest. From thinking only of the Lord he had the door-keeper summon the mountain-guards, though near, to ask again news of the Master. He did not see anything else at all; he did not hear the speech of any one. He thought only of the Lord-like a Yogi engaged in meditation. Making the road short, as it were, by speed, the Lord of Bharata arrived in a moment at Mt. Aṣṭāpada, like the wind. Unconscious of fatigue, though going on foot like the people, Bharata ascended Mt. Aṣṭāpada. Filled with sorrow and joy, the Cakravartin saw the Lord of the Three Worlds seated there in the paryanka posture.""" After making pradakṣiņā three times, and
395 464. The MSS. all read simisima, which seems to be the name of a tree, though no such word is quoted. It must be related to simisimaya, to quiver.
898 478. The posture of the seated statues of Jinas. The legs
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