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THE EPISODE OF SĀGARACANDRA : 243 forehead; the third to his neck; the fourth to his breast; the fifth to his heart; the sixth to his hip; the seventh to his thigh; the eighth to his knee; and the last four fingers from the ground. For in avasarpiņi they had decreasing powers.
Then Kṛṣṇa went to Dvārakā and was installed as ardhacakrin by sixteen thousand kings and by gods. Janārdana dismissed the Pāņdavas to Kurudeśa and the others, Khecaras and mortals, to their respective homes. The ten powerful Daśārhas, Samudravijaya, et cetera; the great warriors, Baladeva, et cetera to the number of five; the sixteen thousand kings, Ugrasena, et cetera; three and a half crores of princes, Pradyumna, et cetera; sixty thousand of the uncontrolled (princes), Sāmba, etcetera; twenty-one thousand heroes,
Virasena, et cetera; likewise fifty-six thousand powerful, eminent ·body-guards,231 Mahāsena and others; others, rich men, sheths, caravan-leaders, by the thousand attended Krşņa, their folded hands placed on their foreheads. The sixteen thousand kings gave jewels as presents to Vāsudeva from devotion and each gave two choice maidens. Of these, Krşņa married sixteen thousand maidens, Bala eight thousand and other princes as many. Kșşņa, Rāma, and the princes sported at pleasure in pleasure-gardens, pleasure-mountains, et cetera, surrounded by charming wives.
King Samudravijaya and Queen Sivā, seeing them amusing themselves in this way, said to Nemi in a speech permeated with affection: “Dear boy, always there is joy to our eyes looking at you. Let it be more by marrying a suitable bride." Lord Nemi, terrified of existence even from birth and endowed with three kinds of knowledge, said: “I do not see suitable girls anywhere. These lead to falling into misfortune.
231 38. Talavarga. This seems to be the same as talavara, which MW defines as body-guard' and PH as 'city-guard.' The Prabandhacintamani, p. 79, line 28, (Singhi ed.), has talavargiya. LAI, p. 60, interprets talavara as
knights' and says, n. 11: “They were invested with a patta given by the king; they possessed the same status, the only difference was that they were without chowries."
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