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THE INITIATION AND OMNISCIENCE OF AJITA 97 Yoga, known to all, arising from the destruction of karma, cause amazement! No one but you roots up completely by the roots the grass of karma, though accumulated through endless time, though endless. You have employed such a method with repetition of action that even without desire you have attained the highest glory of the undertaking. Reverence to you, a pure vessel of friendship, possessing the fragrance of joy, to be venerated because of your compassion and indifference, whose soul is Yoga."
Sagara goes to the samavasarana (399-417) Now the keepers of the garden (Sahasrāmravaņa) went and reported to Cakrin Sagara that the Lord of Jinas, Lord Ajita, was at the samavasaraṇa. The Cakravartin was not so delighted at the cakra's appearance as at the news of the Lord's samavasaraña. Delighted, the King gave them twelve and a half crores of gold as a present. Then after he had bathed and had made the propitiatory rites of the tilaka and auspicious things,205 possessing a noble form and wearing jeweled ornaments like Indra, his shoulder-necklace made firm, twirling an elephant-goad in his hand, Sagara obtained a choice elephant and mounted in front. The King looked like a sun half-risen, his figure concealed up to the waist by the elephant's high frontal boss.
The soldiers came at the sounds of the conch, drum, etc., streaming forth in the sky, like the gods at the proclamations by the bells, Sughoṣā, etc. The Cakrabhrt, accompanied by thousands of crowned kings, looked as if he had many vaikriya-forms.206 The chief of kings with a light umbrella over his head looked like a whirlpool of the sky-Gangā. With the chauris at his sides moving together Sagara looked like Mt. Meru with two moons.207
205 402. See I, n. 293. 208 406. The body that can be changed at will. See I, n. 157. 207 408. See below, this chapter.
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