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LIFE OF MAHÁVÍRA.
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of Cupid, and raising the oceanic tides*, not to be looked on by disconsolate wives temporarily separated from their husbands, lest they suffer a : greater calamity; a moon altogether lovely, like the mark on the forehead, the pride of all the circling starry host, especially beloved of Rohini in soul and heart. Such was the glorious lovely full moon which Trišalá saw.
She next in her dream saw the sun, rending the curtain of night, all glorious with his encircling radiance, like a bunch of red asoka or palása flowers, like a bill of a parrot, or the red side of the retti seed, adorning the beds of wild lotuses, occupying his proper station in the beginning of the ecliptic, like a lamp hung down from heaven, destroying the influence of cold; the prince of planets, the conqueror of night, who at his rising and setting comes near us, but afterwards removes far from us, who disperses the evil doers that stroll about in the dark, who stops the influence of the cold winds, who circles round Meru the
* The original hero
The Sanskrit translation is समुद्रजलवेलावर्द्धकं I mention this in case of any doubting whether the author knew the true cause of the rise of the tides, especially as I do not recollect seeing it mentioned anywhere, that the ancient Hindns understood this subject.
