Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

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

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SREYĀNSANĀTHACARITRA
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The king in the city was Ripupratiếatru, resplendent with all the virtues like the sun with its rays. With the six policies 24 he resembled Bharatakşetra with six divisions and with the four means 25 he resembled Indra's fourtusked elephant. He was like a lion in courage, like an elephant in strength, like Kandarpa in beauty, like Bphaspati in intellect. His intellect and strength, very clear and sharp in the subjection of the earth, adorned each other mutually like arms.
His chief-queen, named Bhadrā, the fair home of good fortune, was like the king's land which had assumed a body. Armored with devotion to her husband, unceasingly watchful like a woman-guard, she guarded her conduct like a deposit of jewels. She always had the beautiful appearance of collyrium for the eyes, of the Sri of the kingdom embodied, of the family-constancy personified.
Birth of Acala (167–179) One day Subala's jiva fell from the Anuttaravimāna and descended into the chief-queen's womb. Sleeping comfortably, she saw four great dreams, which indicate the birth of a Bala, at the last moment of the night. Since sleep had gone far away as if defeated by great joy, the queen told the king at that very time:
"I saw an elephant, four-tusked, resembling a crystal mountain, entering my own mouth like the moon entering a cloud; a bull, high-humped, bellowing, straight-tailed, of spotless color, produced by weaving autumn-clouds, as it were; a moon with its rays streaming forth a great distance as if making ear-ornaments for the quarters; and then a pond filled with full-blown lotuses with sweetly humming bees, just as if it had become one hundred-mouthed and were singing. Master, what is the fruit of these dreams?
24 161. Conciliation, war, marching, encamping, dividing the forces of the enemy, taking refuge with an ally. Abhi. 3. 399.
26 161. See I, p. 153.