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ANANTANĀTHACARITRA
133 His emancipation (298–303) Knowing that it was time for his emancipation, the Lord went to Mt. Sammeta with seven thousand monks and began a fast. At the end of a month, on the fifth day of the bright half of Caitra, the moon being in Pauşņa, Lord Anantajit attained emancipation with the monks. The Indras came with the gods and held the nirvāņafestival of the Lord and his disciples. Anantajit lived for thirty lacs of years seven and a half lacs as prince, fifteen lacs as king, and seven and a half lacs as mendicant. Nine sāgaropamas elapsed between the nirvāṇas of Vimala Svāmin and Ananta Svāmin.
Death of Puruşottama (304-305) Vişņu lived for thirty lacs of years and went to the sixth hell, Tamahprabhā, because of very severe karma. He lived for seven hundred years as prince, thirteen hundred as governor, eighty years in the conquest of the kingdom, and twenty-nine lacs, ninety-seven thousand, nine hundred and twenty years as king.
Death of Suprabha (306–308) Suprabha, who lived for fifty-five lacs of years, remained on earth for a long time, grieved intensely by his brother's death. He took the vow under Mrgānkusa from disgust with existence because of his younger brother's death, attained omniscience and the four infinities, and reached the abode from which there is no return.
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