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CHAPTER FIVE destroyed the splendor of rival kings like torches. Wishing to conquer kings, he did not put a frown on his brow, much less the string on his bow.
His wife was named Suyratā, an unusually virtuous wife, excelling the bees in attendance on his lotus-feet. Surely her low speech had been taught by the cuckoos, her skill in walking by the hansas, her glances by the deer. Modesty was her companion, a wealth of good conduct her maid, good-breeding her chamberlain. This was her natural retinue. Devotion to her husband was the ornament suited to her. Any other ornaments, necklace, et cetera, were ornamented (by her).
. Birth of Dharmanātha (31–39) At that time Drąharatha's soul, living in Vaijayanta, immersed in pleasure, completed its maximum life-period. The soul fell on the seventh day of the bright half of Rādha, the moon being in Puşpa, and entered Lady Suvrata's womb. Then Suyratā saw the fourteen great dreams, elephant, et cetera, indicating the birth of a Tirthakara. On the third day of the bright half of Māgha, in the constellation Puspa, Queen Suvratā bore a son marked with a thunderbolt, gold color, at the right time.
The fifty-six Dikkumāris, Bhogankarā, et cetera, came and performed the birth-rites for the Master and the Master's mother. Then the Indra of Saudharma (Śakra) got into Pālaka, came, took the Master, and conducted him to Meru's peak. Hari sat down on the jeweled lion-throne on Atipāndukambalā, holding the Tīrthakrt on the lion. throne of his lap. Then the sixty-three Indras, beginning with Acyuta, made the Lord's bath in the prescribed fashion with pure water from the holy places. Vajrabhrt placed the Lord on Iśāna's lap, bathed him, anointed him, worshipped him, and began a hymn of praise as follows:
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