The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.44
The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.44
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v2.c17.s1.44
27. By him this stone (image of) the adorable Nārāyaṇa (Viṣṇu), by which the face of the earth is adorned, was fixed like a bridge for crossing the ocean of material existence. Which, being the dark-blue frontal mark of the moon-like face of the eastern quarter, is to the earth (as it were) a lotus used sportively for an ear-ring, the *Pārijātā*⁴⁶ tree of this world, the bestower of completion of designs.