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dharma. The circle of the walls, filled with jewels, gold, palaces, and markets, looks like a treasure-box of the earth. On all sides in it ponds in the gardens, inlaid with jewels, become muddy, as it were, with the pollen of the trees on their banks. Its king was Vijaya, victorious over all enemies, who exercised indraship on earth with the highest degree of glory. Without even frowning, without even arming his army, he overcame his enemies as easily as love overcomes young men. He was deep as the ocean, agreeable as the moon, strong as the wind, brilliant as the sun. His wife, named Vapra, the ornament of all the harem, whose good conduct was made into an ornament, was like the earth embodied. Clear and deep as the Gangă, purifier of the earth, indeed, giving pleasure to the eyes like moonlight, she shone forth. Whatever qualities-truthfulness, virtue, et cetera, are to be seen, because of these to a high degree, she alone of women was an example.
Birth of Nami (19-26)
Now Siddhartha's jiva completed his life of thirtythree sagaras in the heavenly palace Aparajita. He fell and descended into Queen Vapra's womb on the full moon of Aśvayuj in the constellation Aśvakini. There was a light in the three worlds. Then during the last part of the night Queen Vapra saw fourteen great dreams indicating the birth of a tirthakṛt. The embryo grew gradually, like a wish of his father, and made his mother comfortable, knowing her extreme grace. When the time was completed, the queen bore her son, who was marked with a blue lotus, gold color, on the eighth day of the black half of Nabhas, (the moon being) in the constellation which has a horse for a divinity (Aśvinī). Because of the trembling of their thrones the Dikkumārīs came and performed at once the birth-rites of mother and son properly. Sakra took the Lord to the top of Meru and
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