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a tree.
Then in the month Kartika on the fifth day of the dark fortnight, the moon being in conjunction with Mrgaśiras, brilliant omniscience arose in the Master observing a two days' fast, like a guarantee of the sight of present, past, and future objects. Then the hell-inhabitants had a moment of peace from the cessation of pain caused by the Paramādhārmikas,801 arising from the place, and caused by each other. At the same time all the Indras of the gods and asuras, whose thrones had been shaken, came there to make the omniscience-festival.
SAMBHAVAJINACARITRA
The samavasarana (320-340)
The Vayukumāras cleaned the ground for a yojana, and the Clouds 892 sprinkled it to prepare for a samavasaraṇa. The Vyantaras paved it with beautiful gold and jeweled slabs and scattered five-colored flowers on it. There they made four arches, one in each direction, ornamented with white umbrellas, flags, pillars, makara-faces, etc. The Bhavaneśas made a jeweled platform inside and around it a silver wall with a gold coping. The Jyotiskas made a middle wall of gold with a jeweled coping, resembling the girdle of a bride in the form of the earth. Then the Vimānapatis made the upper wall of jewels with a coping of rubies. In each wall there were four ornamental gateways, and within the second wall to the northeast the gods made a dais. In the center of the ground inside the upper wall, the Vyantaras made a caitya-tree two kos and one hundred and eight bows high. Beneath it on the platform paved with jewels they made a dais, and in its center to the east they made a jeweled lion-throne with a foot-stool. Above the dais they made a triple white umbrella; at the sides two Yakṣas held moon-white chauris. In front of the samavasaraṇa the Vyantaras made a shining dharma-cakra, indicating that the Supreme Lord was a Dharmacakrin.
891 318. See I, n. 58.
392 320. Payomuc, really the Meghakumāras.
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