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SAMBHAVAJINACARITRA
243 Arhat gives it. So, during the year, the Master gave away three hundred eighty-eight crores and eighty lacs of gold.
At the end of his year's giving, the Indras, whose thrones had shaken, with their wives and retinues came together to the Master's house. After they had circumambulated the Master's house, they got out of the cars, not touching the earth by a distance of four fingers. All the lords of the gods (Indras), filled with reverence, then circumambulated the Lord of the World and made obeisance to him devotedly. Then Acyuta performed properly the Lord's bath, like the birth-bath, with pitchers of water from the tīrthas brought by the Abhiyogyas. The other Indras also, clever in devotion, made in turn the bath of the initiation-kalyāņa of the Lord of the World in the same way. Immediately the kings, devoted as the Indras of the gods and asuras, made the bath of Sambhava Svāmin with purified water. The gods dried the god of gods' body, wet with bath-water, resembling a golden mirror, with devadūsya. The gods anointed the Lord with gośīrşa-sandal and clothed him in fine garments, with devotion. The gods put ornaments on the Lord of the World-a fillet, resembling the wealth of the earth of a diamond-mine, on his head ; in his ears a pair of ear-rings that looked as if they were made of cloud-pearls ; 887 on his neck a rope of pearls that imitated the Gangā falling from Mt. Nihāra ; armlets and bracelets, that seemed to be made of the sun and stars, on his arms; on his lotus-feet anklets resembling lotus-stalks made into circles.
Then the kings made a palanquin for the Lord which had a lion-throne with a foot-stool and was named Siddhārtha. The Indra Acyuta also had a palanquin made by the Abhiyogyas which was just like a chief-god of the aerial cars of the Vaimānikas. Then the Indra Acyuta put the palanquin made by himself inside the palanquin made by the kings, like aloe inside of sandal
887 268. See I, n. 314. Clouds are one of the sources of pearls.
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