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CHAPTER TWELVE made by gods and men and a great festival was held in the city for twelve years. His commands being observed by kings in all Bharata, long-armed, he enjoyed pleasures without injury to dharma.
Emancipation (29–32) One day, disgusted with existence, he dismissed the kingdom with ease and became a mendicant, eager for the festival of attainment of emancipation. As prince, Harişeņa passed three hundred and twenty-five years, as governor of a province the same, one hundred and fifty years in the expedition of conquest, eighty-eight hundred and fifty as cakrabhrt, and three hundred and fifty in the vow. Having kept severe vows completely, when he was ten thousand years old, his destructive karmas having been destroyed, his omniscience having appeared, Harişeņa went to the abode of continual bliss. .
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