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CHAPTER III
SUMATINĀTHACARITRA Om! Homage to Sumatinātha, the source of extensive knowledge, a bridge for the crossing of the great ocean of boundless sarsāra. By his favor his life, resembling a stream of water for the tree of happiness of people in samsāra who are capable of emancipation, will be related fittingly.
Incarnation as Puruṣasinha (3-120) In this very Jambūdvīpa there is the province Puşkalāvati shining with much wealth, distinguishing East Videha. In it there is a very fair city, Sankhapura by name, whose sky has uneven outlines of banners of various shrines, palaces, etc. Its king was named Vijayasena, a conqueror, possessing (such) strength of arm that his army was merely for splendor. He had a wife, Sudarśanā by name, the ornament of all the women of the harem, beautiful as a digit of the moon. Dallying with her, like Kusumāyudha with Rati, Vijayasena, whose power was celebrated, passed the time.
Sudarśanā's grief over childlessness (8–23)
One day he went with his retinue in magnificent style to a garden where a festival was taking place, and all the people of the city went, too. Queen Sudarśanā also went there, seated on an elephant, marked by the chauris and umbrella, like the Sri of sovereignty embodied. There she saw a certain woman attended by eight young women who resembled Dikkanyās, resplendent with priceless ornaments. When she saw her with them in attendance,
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