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So addressed, Särngabhrt whirled the cakra, threw it, and easily cut off the lotus-head of Meraka. A rain of flowers fell from the sky on Svayambhū and likewise Meraka's torso fell on the ground. The kings who were adherents of Meraka at once resorted to Svayambhū. There was the same procession of the friends of the bridegroom, but the groom was the other one. 148
Then keeping on his right the cakra, which was victorious over the circle of the quarters, 149 he conquered the southern half of Bharata. Svayambhū, the abode of the Śrī of Victory, returned from the expedition of conquest, sporting at will with the Śrī of half of Bharata like a new wife. As he went along the road in the Magadhas, Sārngapaņi saw a rock being lifted by a crore of men, like a concave cover of the earth. Adhoksaja lifted it with his left arm easily, like the lord of serpents (Sesanāga) supporting the earth. After depositing the rock right there, instilling wonder in the powerful, Hari went in a few days to the city Dvāravati. There Svayambhū's installation as ardhacakrin was held by Rudra, Bhadra, and other kings with a festival.
Vimala's omniscience (174-177) Now, after Lord Vimala had wandered two years as an ordinary ascetic, he came to the initiation-garden Sahasrāmravana. At the foot of a jambū tree, the Lord's destructive-karmas broke when he had ascended the ladder of destruction from the eighth guṇasthāna. The Lord's omniscience arose on the sixth day of the bright half of Pausa in the constellation Uttarabhādrapadā from a twoday fast. The Lord delivered a sermon in a divine
148 167. Svayambhū instead of Meraka, whose friends they were originally.
149 168. In the expeditions of conquest of the cakravartins, the cakra preceded them in the air.
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