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with all the supernatural qualities, wandered over the earth from that place to other places.
His congregation (353-358)·
Sixty-four thousand noble ascetics, sixty-two thousand and four hundred nuns, nine hundred who knew the fourteen pūrvas, thirty-six hundred who had clairvoyant knowledge, forty-five hundred who had mind-reading knowledge, and the same hundreds of omniscients, seven hundred munis with the art of transformation, twentyeight hundred disputants, two hundred and forty thousand laymen, four hundred and thirteen thousand laywomen, formed the Lord's retinue as he wandered for two and a half lacs-less two years-of years from the time of his omniscience.
His emancipation (359–363)
Knowing that it was time for his emancipation, the Master went to Sammeta with eight hundred munis, and fasted. At the end of a month, on the fifth day of the bright half of Jyeṣṭha, the moon being in Puspa, the Master reached the eternal abode with the munis. The gods, Śakra and others, at once held the nirvāṇa-festival of Śri Dharmanatha and the ascetics. Dharmanātha's nirvāņa was four sagaras after Ananta Svamin's nirvana. The Lord lived for two and a half lacs of years as prince, five lacs of years as king, and two and a half lacs of years in the vow. Hence his age was ten lacs of years.
Puruşasinha's death (364-366)
Puruşasinha, when his life was completed in the course of time, went to the sixth hell because of various bloody deeds like a lion. His age was ten lacs of years-three hundred years as prince, twelve hundred and fifty years as governor, seventy years in the expedition of conquest, nine hundred and ninety-eight thousand, three hundred and eighty as king.
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