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The twelfth chapter: Having gone, the Chakravarti constantly paid homage to his Lord. He listened to the sixty-three Puranas in detail. ||1|| He had garlands of homage made, touching the head, for the twenty-four Tirthankaras, at the entrance of his palace. ||2|| The Tirthankaras, unseen before, entered the assembly. The sons of the king, with Vivardhana Kumar at their head, were all of them, in the past, of the wrong view. ||3|| They were distressed, having been born in the bodies of stationary beings, and having been of the wrong view from time immemorial. Seeing the Lord's Lakshmi, the princes were astonished. ||4|| Within a moment, they became well-behaved, and they lived for nine hundred and twenty-three years. ||5|| The Chakravarti praised them, and then, having paid homage to the Jina's teachings and the assembly of the virtuous, he entered the city, delighted. ||6|| Slowly, in time, the king, the protector of the people, whose mind was cleansed by the water of knowledge of the four aims of life, came to rule. ||7|| Then, when the time for the Swayamvara arrived, many earth-dwellers and Vidyadharas gathered in the Swayamvara pavilion. Sulochana, the daughter of Akampana, the king of Banaras, chose Megheshvara Jayakumar, the son of Soma Prabha, the king of Hastinapur, as her husband. ||8|| There was a battle between Arka-Kiti and Jayakumar, in which Jayakumar bound Arka-Kiti. Then, at the urging of Akampana, Jayakumar released Arka-Kiti and performed his funeral rites. The Chakravarti honored Jayakumar, the husband of Sulochana. ||9|| Later, the king of Hastinapur, Jayakumar, was sitting on the roof of his palace, surrounded by women, when he saw the Vidyadharas and Vidyadharis flying through the sky, and he fainted. ||10||