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CHAPTER FOUR own city Dvāravati. There Vişņu's installation as Ardhacakrin was made by Soma, Rāma, and other kings with great joy.
Ananta's omniscience (196–199) Now, when Jina Anantajit had wandered three years as an ordinary ascetic, he came to the grove named Sahasrāmravana. There, as the Lord was engaged in meditation under an aśoka, his ghāti-karmas broke like joints of samsāra. On the fourteenth day of the dark half of Rādha, the moon being in Revatī, the Lord's omniscience arose from a two-day fast. In a divine samavasaraņa the Lord delivered a sermon to fifty gañadharas, Yaśas, et cetera.
Śāsanadevatās (2004-204) Pātāla, originating in that congregation, three-faced, with a makara for a vehicle, red, with three right hands holding a lotus, sword, and noose, and with three left hands holding an ichneumon, shield, and rosary, became Śrī Ananta's messenger-deity. Likewise originated, Ankuśā, fair-bodied, with a lotus-vehicle, with a sword and noose in her right hands, and a shield and goad in her left hands, became also a messenger-deity of Ananta Svāmin.
Samavasaraņa (205–212) The Blessed Lord, the best door to mokşa, always closely attended by these two, wandering over the earth, arrived at the city Dvāravati. Sakra and the other gods erected a samavasaraṇa there, adorned by a caitya-tree six hundred bows tall. Jina Anantajit entered by the east door and circumambulated the lofty caitya-tree three times. After saying, "Homage to the congregation," the Lord sat down on the eastern lion-throne, facing the east, and the holy congregation stood in their customary places. The Vyantara-gods created three images of the Master placed on jeweled lion-thrones in the three other directions, Royal agents went and announced to Puruşottama that the
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