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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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The Last Five Upångas (1. Lect. 1.
called because it had curves at eighteen points ). Now that prince Vehalla, with that scent-elephant Seyaņaa and being surrounded by his harem and his retinue, passed through the midst of the city of Champã, and having done so he repeatedly bathed into the waters of the great river Ganges. Now that scentelephant used to take the queens on his trunk, and having done so he used to place some of them on his back, some on his shoulders, some on his head, some on his tusks, some he used to take on his trunk and then hurl them up in the sky, having taken some on his trunk he used to swing them to and fro, he used to take some in the space between his tusks, somo he used to bathe in spray, and he made some sport in various sports. Now many people in the places where two roads meet, in the places where three roads meet, in squares, in places where four roads meet and in high roads, spoke and observed to each other thus: “ Truly, O you beloved of the gods, prince Vehalla, with the scent-elephant Seyanaa and being surrounded by his harem and his retinue ( and so forth as above, down to ) makes them ( Vehalla's queens ) sport in various sports. Therefore, this princo Vehalla
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