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three kinds of knowledge, Ŝantinatha explained: "In another birth I had a younger brother, Drdharatha. Now he has fallen from the palace Sarvärtha and descended into your womb. At the right time you will give birth to a son.” The queen, delighted at hearing that correct speech of her husband, like the thunder of a cloud at dawn, conceived the embryo at the same time. At the right time Queen Yasomati bore a son, pure, with all the favorable marks, like a wonderful image of her husband. Because Yasomati saw a cakra in a dream while he was in the womb, his father gave him the name Cakrayudha. Cherished by nurses, the best tilaka of the world of men, Cakrayudha gradually grew up, like a young elephant. Cakrayudha in time attained young manhood bewitching the eyes of throngs of young women, the play-ground of Ananga. His father married him to many princesses with beautiful forms like Śrīs who had held svayamvaras.
Twenty-five thousand years passed while Śrimat Sāntinātha directed the kingdom. Then the cakra, brilliant with a great light, was in Santi's armory, like a god on the spontaneous birth-couch.850 The Master had an eight-day festival celebrated for the cakra. For even people entitled to honor make a pūjā to the one entitled to honor by custom. The cakra left the armory, like the sun leaving the ocean, facing the east, the face of the Sri of an expedition of conquest. The king, by whose soldiers the earth was covered, followed it presided over by a thousand Yakṣas like its spokes. Every day the cakra stopped after it had gone a yojana; and the Lord stopped also, making a camp twelve yojanas in extent. Thus advancing daily without interruptions, the son of Visvasena arrived at the tirtha Magadha, the ornament of the Eastern Ocean.
Strong-shouldered Santi established at once on its bank a camp whose center could not be reached, like the 350 126. See I, n. 72.
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