Part 7: Initiation of Nami

Surrounded by kings, Suprabha and others, and by gods, Śakra and others, the Lord went to Sahasrāmravaṇa in a palanquin, Devakuru. The Lord entered the grove which had a multitude of bees engaged in kissing the kadamba, the gardener occupied with gathering jasmine blossoms, the surface of the ground made red by the falling trumpet-flowers, with heaps of śirīṣa-flowers made into a couch for lovers, with the rainy season indicated even in hot weather by masses of spray pouring forth from the water-wheels being worked. In the last watch of the ninth day of the black half of Āṣāḍha in Aśvinī the Lord became a mendicant with a thousand kings, observing a two-day fast. Mind-reading knowledge arose then and on the next day he broke his fast with a milk-dish in the house of King Datta in Vīrapura. The rain of treasure, et cetera were made by the gods and King Datta made the platform, and the Lord wandered elsewhere for nine months.