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## Chapter 182
195. As if envious of the stream of nectar flowing from the vessel for the sake of the worthy, the celestial beings showered down a stream of divine gems from the sky.
196. After the worship, when the Dharma Tirthankara, Lord Rishabhadeva, went to the forest for the increase of his austerities, the gods worshipped the Dana Tirthankara, King Shreyans, with an abhisheka.
197. Having heard the proclamation of the appropriate dana and its fruits from the celestial beings, Bharata and other kings assembled and worshipped Shreyans.
198. Remembering the events of the past, Bharata and other kings, who were witnesses to the direct fruits of dana, listened with great faith to the method of dana dharma as expounded by Shreyans.
199-200. King Shreyans explained that there are nine ways to accumulate the merit of dana: 1. Providing hospitality to a guest, 2. Seating them in a high place, 3. Washing their feet, 4. Being worshipped by the giver, 5. Offering salutations, 6. Purity of mind, 7. Purity of speech, 8. Purity of body, and 9. Purity of food.
201. Explaining the fruits of dana, King Shreyans said that the merit accumulated by giving dana in this way first grants the giver fruits like heaven, and ultimately leads to liberation.
202. Thus, having listened to the truth, the kings like Bharata, whose minds were eager for dana dharma, departed as they had come.
203. Lord Rishabhadeva, adorned with four faces representing the four knowledges, performed various austerities for a thousand years to attain the true knowledge of liberation.
204. The Adi Jinendra, adorned with the weight of long matted hair, was resplendent like a banyan tree whose branches were laden with fruits.
205. While wandering, the Lord reached the city of Purvatala, where the younger brother of Bharata, King Vrishabhasena, resided.
206. There, in the garden called Shakatasya, he sat down beneath a banyan tree, absorbed in meditation, on a stone slab with a cushion.
207. At that time, he controlled the senses with the sharpness of the sword of white meditation.