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brother of her breasts; a cave a son of her navel; the sandy beach of a river an imitation of her hips; a plantain a younger sister of her thighs; a lotus a pupil of her feet. Indeed, what part of her, beautiful in body, was not remarkable ?
Birth and birth-rites (26-36) Now in the heaven Prāṇata the soul of Padmaratha, immersed in bliss, passed its life of maximum duration. On the seventh day of the dark half of Śrāvaņa, the moon being in Revati, it fell and descended into the womb of Queen Suyaśas. Comfortably asleep, during the last of the night, the Queen saw the fourteen great dreams, elephant, et cetera, which indicate an Arhat's birth. On the thirteenth day of the dark half of Rādha in the constellation Pauşņa, Lady Suyaśas bore a son, marked with a hawk, gold color. Subsequently the fifty-six Dikkumāris came at once from the Rucakas and performed the Arhat's birth-rites. The Lord of Saudharma-heaven came there, bowed, took the Lord and went to the peak of Mt. Meru through the air. Vāsava sat down on the lion-throne on the rock Atipāņdukambalā, with the Lord held on his lap.
Then the sixty-three Indras, beginning with Acyuta, bathed the Lord in turn with water brought from the tīrthas. Sakra placed the Lord, who was very strong, on Īśāna's lap, as if from very great fatigue from carrying his weight. Väsava bathed the Supreme Lord with water rising from the horns of four large bulls created from crystal. After rubbing the Lord with a cloth of devadūşya, anointing him, worshipping him, waving the light, the Indra of Saudharma praised him:
Stuti (37–44) "Anointing with gośīrşa-sandal is not hard to attain by those covered with dust from falling on the ground before you. They, by whom a single flower is placed
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