The digvijaya
Bharata's march round all of Bharat behind the cakra — sixty thousand years out and back, and every one of the fourteen ratnas used on the way.
The cakra arose in the armoury at Vinītā and rolled east. Bharata followed it "like light behind a torch", a yojana a day, to the three tīrthas of the eastern, southern and western seas — Māgadha, Varadāma, Prabhāsa — where an arrow shot twelve yojana into the sea brought each lord out to submit.
Then up the Sindhu to Vaitāḍhya, where the general crossed the river on the hide and took the outer khaṇḍa; through Tamisrā by the light of the maṇi and the forty-nine circles of the kākiṇī; seven days under the parasol while the Meghamukha nāgas rained; an arrow of seventy-two yojana to the prince of Himavat; his name on Ṛṣabhakūṭa; twelve years' war with the Vidyādharas Nami and Vinami, which ended with Subhadrā; a thousand years with the goddess of the Gaṅgā; back through Khaṇḍaprapātā; the nine nidhis rising at the Gaṅgā's mouth; and home by the east gate.
The text walks five of the six khaṇḍas by name. Whether the general separately took the northern Sindhu khaṇḍa is not in the passages this atlas could read, and the map does not draw a stop the text does not give.
Sixty thousand years after the first march he was consecrated by thirty-two thousand kings, and the festival ran twelve years. Every serious cakravartī story ends the same way; his ended in a hall of mirrors.
માપ અને સંખ્યાઓ
| Duration | 60,000 years |
|---|---|
| Daily march | 1 yojana |
| Camp | 9 × 12 yojana |
| Arrow | 12 yojana; 72 at Himavat |
| War with the Vidyādharas | 12 years |
| With Gaṅgā-devī | 1,000 years |
| Coronation festival | 12 years |
| Kings at the coronation | 32,000 |
| Khaṇḍas walked in the text | 5 of 6 |