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ANANTANATHACARITRA
some time in this way, he, discerning, took initiation at the feet of the teacher Cittarakṣa. He accumulated bodymaking karma of a Tirthakṛt by means of the sthānas, devotion to the Arhats, et cetera, and after death he became a god in (the palace) Puspottara in Prāṇata.
Incarnation as Ananta (12-303)
Now in Jambudvipa in the southern half of Bharata there is a capital city Ayodhya, the ground of the mountain of the Ikṣvāku-family. It shone with a circular moat with shining clear water like a superior woman wreathed and dressed for love. The houses had good exits and entrances, good joinings, 158 had money (plot), good floors (parts), like plays. On the top stories of its houses shine golden lattices, like crowns joined to the house-Lakṣmis, one by one. The wind, carrying the fragrance of flowers used in the worship of the Arhats in its shrines, is like an errhine of nectar for the destruction of the people's heat.
III
His parents (17-25)
Its king was Sinhasena, chief of man-lions, with remarkable strength like a lion. Kings offered him service from a desire for their own happiness, like service to a supreme god from devotion. Chief of the virtuous, he delighted the world with his various blameless virtues, like the moon with its white rays. Expert in what was suitable, he supported love, wealth, and dharma, each with its share, like princes who had come for service.
His wife, the dwelling-place of dharma, was named Suyaśas, with abundant glory from her own good conduct. She was the sole purifier of the family of her mother, father, and father-in-law, like the Mandakini of the three worlds. The moon was a likeness of her face; a lotus was a younger brother of her eyes; a conch a picture of her neck; a lotus-tendril a friend of her arms; a pitcher a
158 14. See Daśarupa 1. 34 for the dramatic 'junctures.'
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