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CHAPTER ONE
His emancipation (127-131)
When twenty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty-four years had passed from the time of his omniscience, knowing that it was time for his emancipation, the Lord went to Mt. Sammeta and began a fast with a thousand munis. At the end of a month, on the first day of the black half of Radha, the moon being in the Kṛttikās, the Master and the munis attained an eternal abode. The Lord's life was ninety-five thousand years, equally divided as prince, king, emperor, and monk. Kunthunatha's emancipation took place half a palyopama after Śrī Santinātha's emancipation. The emancipation-festival of the Supreme Lord was held by the Indras and the gods; and the teeth, et cetera, were taken to their respective abodes to be worshipped properly.
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