Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

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

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order that magic weapons created by his vidyās will be useless." They agreed.
Jvalanajațin, delighted, taught vidyās to them, dressed in white, concentrated in meditation. Recalling the first syllables of the mantras, the two brothers passed seven nights, their minds devoted to one thing. On the seventh day, the lord of serpents (Sesa) having trembled, the vidyās approached Bala and Upendra absorbed in meditation. The vidyās Gārudi, Rohiņi, Bhuvanaksobhaņi, Krpāṇastambhani, Sthāmasumbhani, Vyomacāriņi, Tamisrakāriņi, Sinhatrāsini, Vairimohini, Vegābhigāminī, Divyakāmini, Randhravāsinī, Kțśānuvarşiņi, Nāgavāsini, Vārisoșiņi, Dharitrivāriņi, Cakramāraṇī, Bandhamocanī, Vimuktakuntalā, Nānārūpiņi, Lohaśrnkhalā, Kālarāksasikā, Channadasadiś, Tīkşņaśūlini, Candramauli, Vijayamangalā, Rkşamālini, Siddhatādanikā, Pinganetrā, Vacanapeśalā, Dhvanitāhiphaņā, Ghoraghoşiņi, Bhirubhîşiņi, and others said, "We are in your power.” Both completed meditation, though the vidyās had been won. Everything is attracted spontaneously by merit. What should not belong to the noble ?
Then Triprstha and his elder brother set out in style on an auspicious day with extensive forces and with Prajāpati, Jvalanajațin, et cetera. With tall horses going to and fro swift as eagles; with chariots, abodes of Srīs of victory, going towards the enemy; with elephants lively from ichor, surpassing the elephants of the gods; with superior infantry leaping like tigers; completely covering the sky and earth with sky-travelers (Vidyādharas) and earth-travelers (humans); urged on by favorable omens as well as by his own people ; splitting the sky by the noise of musical instruments increased by neighings and trumpetings: shaking the earth by the weight of a multitude of soldiers; Hari, the turning of whose chariot grinds the earth, arrived at Mt. Rathāvarta which was very much like a stone boundary-pillar of his own country.