Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 2

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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BIRTH OF AJITA AND SAGARA
He thought constantly in accord with dharma, he spoke in accord with dharma, he acted in accord with dharma. Everything on his part was based on dharma.
The King had a younger brother, who was crown prince, named Sumitravijaya, whose strength was unequaled. King Jitaśatru had a wife, Śrimati Vijayā Devi, who was like a goddess come to earth. She had the appearance of being made of pieces of blooming lotuses from the looks of her hands, feet, eyes, and face. She was the ornament of the earth, and good behavior was her ornament. Her collection of other ornaments was merely for formality. To judge from her possession of the whole collection of arts and her uniting of every beauty, the goddess Sarasvati or Kamalā had descended (to earth) for a dwelling. The King was the first among men; she was the crest-jewel of women. Their union was like that of the ocean and Gangā.
Now, when King Vimala's soul fell from (the palace) Vijaya, it became a jewel of a son, possessing three kinds of knowledge, in Queen Vijayā's womb like a jewel-mine, on the thirteenth day of the bright half of Rādha, the moon being in conjunction with the constellation Rohiņi. From the power of the Master who had entered the womb, happiness for hell-inhabitants even arose for a moment. In the pure fourth watch of the same night Queen Vijayā saw fourteen great dreams.
The fourteen dreams (22-36) The first of these was an elephant with a swarm of bees flying about the mada-perfume, excelling a rain-cloud in thunder, resembling Indra's elephant; a bull gleaming with lofty horns, fair as an autumn-cloud, with beautiful feet, resembling a living Kailāsa ; a young lion shining with nails curved like the digits of the moon and with a mane of saffron-colored hair; Kamalā, seated on a lotus, being sprinkled by two elephants at her sides with full pitchers uplifted ; a wreath of flowers in the sky, resembling a necklace of the sky, the atmosphere being penetrated by