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part of the fruits of the tree of salutations by five Navakaras, duly growing by the watering of faith. This Bharatakshetra is endowed with a harem of 64 thousand ladies duly beautified in all their limbs by ornaments. It means a command over 32 thousand powerful kings. It is spread over 96 crores of villages, each being as big as a city. It has a vast population. Its royal highways are ever crowded with lots of shining, charming chariots. It has a vast number of restive horses. It is duly protected by Yakshas 16 thousand in number and it is wealthy in all respects thanks due to the ninefold wealth and 14 types of gems. (26 to 32)
All this that happens is only a part of the miracle of propitiation undertaken in all sincerity and genuineness of the five salutations. That which is born together with a charming figure like the pearl in the midst of the pearlshell in the godly place covered up with a white divine silver garment; after it is born, it is endowed with blessings from birth and youthfulness, which has a lifelong charming body free from all diseases, old age, dust and perspiration. It is adorned right from birth with an unwithering garland, free as it is from the dirts of the body; whose charm of the body is constituted of the best of gold and therefore lustrous like the sun at dawn. His Dikchakra is variegated in colour by the rays of the fivefold ornaments studded with jewels. He is capable, by the round cheeks, to madden the entire group of charming, sportive godly ladies; is capable by just one stroke to move the entire circle of planets and the entire earth. He is capable of pounding down, as if in play, the Kulachala mountains and powerful enough to dry up the Manasa lake, rivers and waters of the oceans, all at a time
