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TWELFTH INCARNATION AS SANTI
Once you were the Indra of Acyuta; once a knowledgeable 848 cakrabhṛt; and once an Ahamindray the ornament of Graiveyaka. One time you were a noble king with clairvoyant knowledge; and once anTM Ahamindra, the ornament of Sarvarthasiddha. In what birth were you not superior, Supreme Lord? Now the songs of praise are completed by your birth as Tirthakṛt I am not capable of telling your virtues. However, I shall tell my own purpose. May my devotion to your lotusfeet exist in every birth."
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After this hymn of praise, Vajrabbṛt took again the Lord from Iśāna, went quickly, and deposited him at Queen Acira's side, according to custom. Hari fastened up high a śrīdāmagaṇḍaka 49 to amuse the Master's eyes, and deposited two garments of devaduṣya and a pair of earrings on the pillow. Then Maghavan, whose words are not in vain, had proclaimed by the gods: "Whoever, evil-minded, of gods, demons, or mortals, shall think anything unfavorable to the Arhat and the Arhat's mother, his head shall burst into seven pieces, like the clusters of blossoms of the arjaka."
Vaisravana, at Pakaśāsana's command, made a great shower of jewels and gold in the city Hastinapura. Hari took the sleeping-charm away from the queen, like the sun from the day-blooming lotus, and the Arhat's image at once. Hari appointed five Apsarases as nurses for the Arhat; and then the other Vasavas went to Meru in Nandiśvara. All, delighted, held an eight-day festival to the images of the eternal Arhats properly and went to their respective places.
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Then the queen, when sleep had gone away, saw her son with divine ornaments and garments, divine unguents, and a flood of light. The queen's attendants. excited by
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848 89. The cakrabhrt had clairvoyant knowledge, Hemacandra regularly uses jñānin of one who has the superior kinds of knowledge. Cf. I, p. 201.
349 94. See I, n. 167 and II, n. 104.
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