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were. Her brow and gait were curved, but her mind was not crooked; her waist was small, but not the wealth of her intelligence. The important virtue of proper behavior adorned like a general her entire army of virtues surpassing everything.
Birth of Candraprabha (28–37) Now, King Padma's jīva, which was living in Vaijayanta, completed a life of thirty-three sāgaras. It fell and descended into the womb of Queen Lakşmaņā, when the moon was in conjunction with Anurādhā, on the fifth day of the black half of Caitra. At that time Queen Lakşmaņā, comfortably asleep, saw the fourteen great dreams indicating the birth of a Tirthakrt. Queen Lakşmaņā carried comfortably the embryo unobserved, like the earth the shining wealth of jewels. On the twelfth day of the black half of Pausa, the moon standing in Anurădhā, she bore her jewel of a son, marked with a moon, the color of the moon.
Then, knowing the birth of the eighth Arhat by the shaking of their thrones, the fifty-six Dikkumārīs performed the birth-rites. The Indra of Saudharma joyfully made the festival of the birth-bath. Attended by gods, he took the Master to the peak of Meru. Hari seated himself on the jeweled throne on the rock Atipāņdukambalā, holding the Supreme Lord on his lap. Then the sixty-three Indras, Acyuta, etc., radiantly joyful, bathed the Master in turn. Next, Sakra set the Master on the couch of the lap of the Indra of Iśāna, and bathed him with water. rising out of the horns of bulls. After he had paid homage to him devotedly with divine unguent, ornaments, and garments, Pākaśāsana began a hymn of praise to the Blessed One.
Stuti (39-46) “I, undertaking to praise you whose virtues are infinite, am the abode of ridicule, like a țițţibha with its legs extended upwards with the idea that it is the support
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