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The Sixteenth Chapter:
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There were three hundred thousand Shravakas, all of them possessing the qualities of learning and bearing the mark of the soul. There were also three hundred thousand women with minds purified by Right Faith, and surrounded by these noble ones, the Lord, like the moon, shone brightly. ||73||
The Lord lived for thirty thousand years. Of these, seven thousand five hundred years were spent as a prince, fifteen thousand years in ruling, and the remaining seven thousand five hundred years were spent in the practice of restraint. ||74||
At the end of his life, the Lord, the master of the monks, Munisuvrata, ascended the Sammed Shikhar, adorned with forests that bring joy, and freed himself from the bonds of karma. Accompanied by a thousand monks who had also destroyed their bonds, he attained liberation. ||75||
Thirteen days into the bright fortnight of the month of Magha, the Lord, having ceased all activities, remained in the posture of yoga. In the afternoon, with the auspicious constellation of Pushya, the Lord attained liberation, and the Indra, the king of the gods, performed the Nirvana Kalyanak. ||76||
The Lord Munisuvrata's Dharma Tirtha, a place of pilgrimage, continued uninterruptedly on earth for six hundred thousand years. In his Tirtha, the monks were fully empowered by their knowledge of the scriptures, and the constant arrival of the gods brought joy to the people. ||77||
Gautama Swami says that in the world, whoever, with devotion, contemplates, listens to, reads, and remembers this story of the twenty-fourth Tirthankara, adorned with the five auspicious events, will quickly attain the happiness of liberation. ||78||
Thus, having offered this garland of verses, composed in the Vasantatilaka meter, and adorned with the beautiful flowers of the spring season, the Lord Munisuvrata, the conqueror, the wise, may he, by destroying all obstacles, bestow upon us the knowledge of meditation and enlightenment. ||79||
Thus ends the sixteenth chapter of the Harivansha Purana, composed by Jinasena Acharya, which describes the five auspicious events of Lord Munisuvrata, and is part of the collection of the Arishta-nemi Purana. ||16||