Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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GREYĀNSANĀTHACARITRA
like liberality with suitability, like speech with truthfulness. He became the constant play-house and concert-ball, as it were, of the very great virtues-courage, dignity, firmness, et cetera. Vişnu was the wife of the king, like Sacs of Jişņu (Indra), radiant with beauty, like another earth in stability. She observed fidelity sharp as a sword-blade, which was the ornament of her own body delicate as a śirişa. Just as no one was equal to the king in power, there was no one her equal in wealth of beauty and grace. She was indolent in her gait, to be sure, but not in pious acts; she was very small in her waist, but not in her heart. She and the king, their minds sewn together, as it were, delighting each other unhindered, experienced imperishable joy.
His birth (30-41) Now in Sukra King Nalinagulma's jiva completed its life of maximum duration. Then on the sixth day of the black half of Jyestha, the moon being in Sravaņa, his jīva fell and descended into Vişnu's womb. Then for a moment there was comfort for the hell-inhabitants and a light in the three worlds. For that happens at the kalyāṇas of the Arbats.
The fourteen dreams (33–41) A great elephant, like Vaitādhya on a small scale, white; a white bull with high horns like an autumn-cloud with fish 8; a superior lion with his tail erect like an umbrella being carried; Mahālakṣmi being sprinkled like another embodiment of herself (the queen); a fragrant wreath of flowers like her own glory incarnate; a full moon bathed in moonlight like a tank of nectar; a sun, shining like the crest-jewel of the sky; a flagstaff with fluttering pennants
630. Seventeen sāgaropamas. 7:32. See I, n. 147.
8 33. Probably alluding to the rains of fishes which take place in India and encourage a superstition that clouds contain fishes. See Balfour, I, p. 1112.