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SAMBHAVAJINACARITRA
233 man in this kingdom. He carried a weapon in his hand and was compassionate ; he was powerful and forbearing; wise and free from jealousy; young and his senses were subdued. His chief-queen was suitable because of a wealth of beauty, the general of the soldiers-the virtues, named Senādevī. Not injuring the other objects of existence, at the proper moments he sported with the queen like the moon with Rohiņi.
Birth (112–136) Now, the jīva of King Vipulavāhana completed his life in the ninth heaven. He fell from Ānata and descended into Senā's womb on the eighth day of the white fortnight of Phālguna, when the moon was in conjunction with Mrgaśiras. For a moment then there was ease for the hell-inhabitants; and there was a light like a flash of lightning in the three worlds.
The fourteen dreams (115-126) As she was sleeping, Senādevi saw fourteen great dreams entering her lotus-mouth during the remainder of the night. A trumpeting elephant, fair as an autumncloud ; a bull, spotless, like a large rock that had fallen from Sphatikaśaila (Kailāsa); a lion with a very yellow mane, with a mass of hair; the sprinkling of Srī being made by two elephants ; a wreath made of five colors, stealing the hues of twilight-clouds; a full moon silvery like a mirror ; a sun by which darkness was dispelled ; a flagstaff with a banner with a collection of tinkling bells; a golden water-pitcher whose mouth was covered with lotuses ; a large pool smiling, as it were, with blooming lotuses ; the Ocean of Milk dancing with high waves as hands, as it were ; a palace made of jewels, whose counterpart has never been seen; a heap of jewels resembling a collection of
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