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appeared. The priest, the steward, the horse, the elephant the general, the carpenter, and the woman: his seven five-sensed jewels appeared.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Expedition of conquest (14-25)
For the sake of conquest, he went east to the eastern ocean, following the cakra. There he made submissive the Prince of Magadhatirtha. Then he turned to the southern ocean and subdued the god, Lord of Varadaman. For even a god on earth is not equal to a cakravartin. Then he went to the western ocean and easily subdued the god, the Lord of Prabhasa, by one arrow that was shot. Then he subdued Sindhu, like a second ocean (sindhurāja), and, resembling Indra, the god, the Prince of Mt. Vaitäḍhya. He himself subdued the god named Kṛtamāla and had the west district of the great river Sindhu subdued by the general. Long-armed, he entered and left Tamisra properly and conquered the Kiratas, named Apātas. He conquered the west district of the Sindhu by the general. and, powerful as a god, subdued the Prince of Himavat. He wrote his name on Rṣabhakūta with the cowrie, turned, and conquered the east district of the Ganga by the general. He himself subdued Ganga and the lords of the Vidyadharas, and Natyamāla living at the door of Khaṇḍaprapātā. He left Vaitaḍhya by the cave Khandaprapātā and quickly conquered the east district of the Ganga by the general. The nine treasures, Naisarpa, et cetera, located at the mouth of the Ganga, submitted to him when he was encamped at the Ganga. Then he went to his own city, his glory of a cakravartin having been completed, and his enthronement as a cakrin was made by gods and men.
With unbroken strength he enjoyed the six-part earth and in course of time, terrified by existence, he became a mendicant.
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