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auspicious things out of unbroken rice on boards in front of the statues of the Masters resembling the moon in beauty. Then they made the light-waving ceremony with divine camphor-unguent, and after they had worshipped, they set down the light-vessel resembling the sun. After they have eulogized them with the Sakrastava, their hands folded submissively, they praised the Jinendras, Rṣabha Svämin and the others:
LIFE AND DEATH OF THE SONS OF SAGARA
Stuti (121-127)
"O Blessed Ones, equal to boats for crossing the boundless, terrible ocean of existence, you who have become the cause of nirvana, purify us. Homage always to you, having the rôle of carpenters for the erection of the palace of the doctrine of Syādvāda 327 by the modes of expressing things and means of acquiring knowledge.328 Homage to you refreshing the garden of the whole world very much by the streams of speech extending for a yojana. By the sight of you the greatest fruit of life up to the fifth division (of time) 29 has been attained by us and all living things. Homage to you giving happiness to hellinhabitants by the kalyāņas 330 of conception, birth, mendicancy, omniscience, and emancipation. May your impartiality, like that of the clouds, winds, moons, and suns, be for our prosperity. The birds here on Aṣṭāpada, who see you every day without any obstacle, are indeed. blessed. Now our life has good conduct as its object and our power has its purpose accomplished for a long time. since we have seen and worshipped you."
Digging of a moat around Aṣṭāpada (128-156)
After reciting this eulogy and bowing again to the holy Arhats, the sons of Sagara, delighted, descended from
327 121. See I, n. 4.
828 121.
Nayapramāṇa. See above, p. 101.
829 123. They were living in the fourth division. Rṣabha was born.
in the third division; all the other Tirthankaras in the fourth.
830 124. See I, n. 147.
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