Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 2

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

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CHAPTER TWO
quarter, made a powerful samudghāta oz and thus created pitchers, made of gold, silver, jewels, gold and silver, gold and jewels, silver and jewels, gold, silver and jewels, and clay, one thousand and eight of each kind. They made an equal number of vases, mirrors, dishes, vessels, earthen vessels, jewel boxes, and flower-baskets without loss of time, as if they had been taken from a store-room. The gods took the pitchers energetically and went to the Ocean of Milk, like drawers of water to a pool. Like clouds they took up easily water from the Ocean of Milk with the pitchers with deep bubbling-sounds like loud auspicious cries. They took white and red day-blooming lotuses, night-blooming white and blue lotuses, sahasrapattras and satapattras.°8
Approaching the ocean Puşkaroda, like sea-faring merchants an island, they took very rapidly lotuses, etc. The gods took water, etc., from the tirthas, Māgadha, etc.,99 of Bharata- and Airavatakşetra. Like heated travelers, they took clay and lotuses from the rivers, Gangā, etc., from the pools, Padma, etc. They took herbs, perfumes, flowers, white mustard, and saffron from all the principal mountain-ranges, from all the Vaitādhyas, from all the provinces and all the Vakşāra Mts., from the Devaand Uttarakurus, from Bhadraśāla, Nandana, Saumanasa, and Pāņďaka encircling Sumeru, and from the mountains, Malaya, Dardura, etc. The gods mixed all these materials together, like doctors mixing medicines and perfumers mixing perfumes. After obtaining all this, they went to the Master, as if rivaling Acyutendra's mind in zeal.
Then, full of devotion, the Indra of Āraņa- and Acyutakalpa, surrounded by ten thousand Sāmānika-gods, thirtythree Trāyastriñśas, four Lokapālas, three assemblies, seven armies and generals, and forty thousand bodyguards, with a scarf wrapped around his mouth, throwing
97 419. I.e., a vaikriyasamudghāta. See I, n. 157. 98 426. Some varieties of lotus. 99 428. Prabhāsa and Varadāma. See below, Chap. IV.