Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

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

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SREYANSANĀTHACARITRA
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right hand holding a citron and a second holding a club, with an ichneumon and a rosary in his left hands, became Lord Sreyānsa's messenger-deity at that time. Likewise the goddess Mänavi, fair, with a lion for a vehicle, with one right hand in the boon-granting position and one holding a hammer, holding a thunder-bolt and a goad in her left hands, became the Lord's attendant messenger-deity at that time.
The samavasarana (788–817) With these two always near him, the Supreme Lord in the course of his wandering arrived one day at the best city, Potanapura. There the Marutkumāras cleaned the ground for a yojana for the Master's samavasarana and the Meghakumāras sprinkled it. The Vyantaras paved it with gold and jewels and threw down five-colored flowers knee-deep. They made ornamental arches in each direction, like frowns of the directions, and made a pure jeweled platform in the middle of the ground. Below it the Bhavanadhipas made a silver wall with a gold coping, like a head-wreath of the earth. The Jyotişkas made a second wall of gold with a jeweled coping as if made of their own light. The Vimānapatis created a third wall made of divine slabs of jewels with a coping of gems. In each wall there were four doors with festoons and to the northeast within the middle wall was a dais. A caitya-tree, sixty-nine bows tall, was created by the Vyantaras in the center of the ground inside the walls. Below it on the surface of the jeweled platform they made a dais and on it a jeweled lion-throne with a foot-stool facing east. Whatever else had to be done there, the Vyantaras did it. They, devoted, excelled even servants in freedom from carelessness.
Then Lord Sreyānsa, shining with a triple umbrella in the sky; being fanned with chiauris by Yakşas at his sides; adorned with an Indradhvaja preceding him ; with blessings recited by the drum sounding of its own accord,