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CHAPTER FOUR
Conquest of Kșudrahimavat (246-258) One day the Cakrin's cakra left the armory by a northeast path, like the sun in summer. Following the cakra, the King reached the southern slope of the Kșudrahimavat Mountains 800 and stopped there, taking up his abode. Concentrating on the Prince of Kșudrahimavat, he made a three days' fast, and commenced pausadha in the pausadha-house. At the end of pausadha, he got into a chariot, went to the Kșudrahimavat Mountains, and struck them three times with the end of his chariot, like an elephant with his tusk. After he had halted his horses and had strung his bow, the King discharged an arrow marked with his own name. Traversing seventytwo yojanas like a kos in a moment, it fell on the ground in front of the Prince of Kșudrahimavat. He was angered at once by the arrow, but became calm instantly from the name on the arrow. Standing in the air, he gave gośirşasandal, all the herbs, water from the lake Padma, devadūşya(-garments), the arrow, jeweled ornaments, and wreaths of flowers of the kalpa-tree, and promised service, saying, “Long live !” After dismissing him, then the King turned his chariot, went to Mt. Rşabhakūta, 810 and struck it three times in the same way. Holding his horses, he engraved with the cowrie the words, “Sagara, the second Cakravartin," on the front of the mountain. Then turning the chariot, the King returned to the camp and broke his three days' fast. Sagara, who had vowed a complete procession of conquest, made an eight-day festival to the Prince of the Hima Mountains, with great magni. ficence.
Conquest of the goddess Gangā (259-263) Then following the cakra by the northeast path, the King arrived comfortably near the palace of the goddess
309 247. The north boundary of Bharatavarşa.
310 255. In the middle of the north part of Bharata. Jamb. 17, p. 87a.
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