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LIFE OF MAHÁVÍRA.
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of white lotus flowers, shining and darting out rays on every side. A very fine ornamental attractive hump adorned his shoulders. His skin was clear, his hair sleek, his form graceful, and his body in good condition, and altogether beautiful to look on ; his horns were circular, smooth, and elevated ; his teeth were harmless and clean. Such was the assemblage of excellent qualities the bull possessed.
She next saw a lion of a dazzling white colour, like a bunch of pearls, or the sea of milk, or the lunar radiance, or the drops of dew, whiter than the great mountain Vaitádhya, pleasing and delightful to the sight, strong, muscular, and fat, with his members all properly rounded in the most elegant way, having a sharp well-formed jaw, a mouth beautiful as the periphery of a lotus, a fine muscular lip, with a palate like the red water lily, and the tip of his tongue hanging out of his mouth like fine gold being poured out of a crucible, while his bright eye seemed like a ball of lightning falling upon you. His chest was broad, and his large well-made shoulders were adorned with a soft, bright, fine, sleek, long-haired mane, while his tail was raised aloft with a circle in the centre*, bounding like a ball, and possessing the good qualities as well as form of the moon. He seemed bounding play
* This is the form intended.
