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here and there by the wind; occupied by jasmines humiliated, as it were, unable to endure seeing the irresistible wealth of blossoms of the sinduväras; " giving delight with the perfume of the blooming wormwood, possessing a wealth of coolness.
In the afternoon of the twelfth day of the bright half of Phalguna, (the moon being) in Sravana, the Lord adopted mendicancy with a thousand kings, observing a two-day fast. On the next day the Blessed Munisuvrata broke his fast with rice-pudding in King Brahmadatta's house in Rājagṛha. The gods made the five things, the stream of treasure, et cetera, and King Brahma made a jeweled platform where the Master stood. Free from attachment, free from self-interest, enduring all trials, the Lord wandered for eleven months as an ordinary ascetic.
Omniscience (158-164)
In his wandering the Lord came again to the garden Nilaguha and stood in pratima under a campaka tree. On the twelfth day of the dark half of Phalguna, the moon being in Śravana, the Lord's omniscience arose from the destruction of the ghatikarmas. A samavasarana was made by the gods, Sakra and others, and an aśoka tree two hundred and forty bows tall. The Master entered there, circumambulated the caitya-tree, said, "Reverence to the congregation," and sat down on the eastern throne. The Vyantaras made images of him in the other directions and the holy fourfold community remained in the proper places. Then Suvrata learned that the Master was in the samavasaraṇa, came, bowed to the Master, and sat down behind Śakra. After bowing again to the Master, with folded hands touching their foreheads Sakra and Suvrata recited this hymn of praise filled with devotion.
65 152. For the sinduvära, see the Sinduvara Tree in Sanskrit Literature by M. B. Emeneau, Univ. California Publications in Classical Philology 12, 333 ff.
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