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After reciting this eulogy and bowing again to the holy Arhats, the sons of Sagara, delighted, descended from the temple. They honored the pure burial-mounds of Bharata鈥檚 brothers,^[1] and then, after reflecting a little, Jahnu said to his younger brothers:

鈥淚 think that a place equal to 础峁ａ弓腻辫补诲补 is to be found nowhere. We shall make this shrine here like another one. Even though emancipated, Cakrin Bharata enjoys Bharata办峁�e迟谤补, remaining in the guise of a shrine on this mountain which is the essence of Bharata(办峁�e迟谤补). This very shrine has been made by us if the protection of the shrine to be robbed by future men is arranged for. When the du岣メ梗am膩-period has begun, there will be men greedy of money, devoid of nobility, not considering right and wrong. Then the protection of old holy places is better than the making of new holy places.鈥�^[2]

Destruction of the 狈腻驳补蝉鈥� houses:

The younger brothers agreed and then Jahnu took the staff-jewel which had a powerful radiance like the sun. He and his younger brothers began to dig up the earth to make a moat around 础峁ａ弓腻辫补诲补 like a city. The sons of Sagara dug the moat a thousand yojanas in depth and by it split open the homes of the 狈腻驳补蝉. All the 狈腻驳补-folk were terrified at their houses being destroyed, like the circle of sea-monsters at the ocean being churned. On all sides the 狈腻驳补蝉 trembled as at an enemy鈥檚 army that had come, or at a fire that had started, or at a great wind that had risen. Then the 狈腻驳补-king, Jvalanaprabha, blazing with anger like a fire, saw the 狈腻驳补-folk confused. When he saw the earth split open, thinking 鈥榃hat鈥檚 this?鈥� he hurried away and came to Sagara鈥檚 sons.

Terrible with a violent frown like an ocean with high waves, his lips trembling from anger like a flaming fire; casting red glances like a succession of darts made of hot iron; opening wide his nostrils which resembled blow-pipes for the fire of the thunderbolt; angered like K峁泃膩nta, hard to look at like the sun at the end of the world, the 狈腻驳补-king, Jvalanaprabha, said to the sons of Sagara:

鈥淥h, what has been done, alas! by men thinking themselves valiant, insolent from gaining the staff-jewel, like 艢补产补谤补蝉 from gaining a citadel. This destruction of the eternal homes of the Bhavan膩dhipas has been made now by men acting without deliberation. Why have you, sons of the brother of Ajita Sv膩min, done such a thing like a cruel act by 辫颈艣腻肠补蝉?鈥�

Then Jahnu said to the 狈腻驳补-king: 鈥淭hat is right, what you, troubled by the destruction of your houses which originated with us, have said. We did not dig up the earth with the staff with the idea that your houses would be destroyed, but for the sake of protecting 础峁ａ弓腻辫补诲补t墨rtha was the ground dug up in the form of a moat. Here Cakrin Bharata, the root of our family, made a shrine of precious stones and pure jeweled statues of the Arhats. We made this effort because we feared its destruction by people through the fault of future time.^[3] The destruction of your houses was not anticipated because of the distance. Alas! the unerring power of the staff is to blame for that. What was done by action without reflection and from devotion to the Arhats, pardon that. We shall not do such a thing in future.鈥�

Thus conciliated by Prince Jahnu, the 狈腻驳补-king became calm. For the water of conciliatory speech extinguishes the fire of anger in the good. Saying, 鈥淒o not do such a thing again,鈥� the 狈腻驳补-king went to the 狈腻驳补-world like a lion to a cave.

Footnotes and references:

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[1]:

See I, p. 369.

[2]:

The actual practice in India is just the opposite of this. New temples, etc., are erected in preference to repairing old ones.

[3]:

I.e., of the coming evil period.