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In the Harivamsha Purana, it is said that Shri Gautam, having destroyed his parents, was wandering about begging for food. He saw a monk named Samudradatta eating. After his meal, Gautam followed him and reached his hermitage. There, he said to Samudradatta, "I am starving, please make me like yourself." || 103-105 ||
Recognizing him as a worthy soul, the monk initiated him. Gautam, having received initiation, performed severe austerities for a thousand years and extinguished his obstructive sins. || 106 ||
Through the power of his austerities, Gautam became endowed with the seed-intellect and the taste-power. He also attained the inexhaustible great power and the power of following footprints. || 107 ||
His teacher, Samudradatta, performed the worship of the objects of worship perfectly and became the Ahamindra in the spacious Vimāna called Vishala, the sixth Graiveyaka. His disciple, Gautam, performed austerities for fifty thousand years. || 108 ||
Finally, Gautam, the possessor of vast intellect, was born in the same spacious Vimāna, having attained the lifespan of twenty-eight Sagaras. || 109 ||
After enjoying the pleasures of being the Ahamindra, Gautam's soul became Andhakavrishni, and your teacher, Samudradatta's soul, is me, the well-established one. || 110 ||
Thereafter, the sorrowful king Andhakavrishni inquired about the previous births of his ten sons. The Kevali Bhagavan said, || 111 ||
"Once upon a time, in the city of Sadbhadrailpur, there lived a king named Megharatha. His wife's name was Subhadra, and they had a son named Dridharatha. || 112 ||
In the same city, there lived a wealthy merchant named Dhanadatta, who was comparable to the king. His wife's name was Nandayasha. Nandayasha bore him two daughters, Sudarshana and Sujyeshta, and nine sons: Dhanapal, Jinapal, Devapal, Addas, Jindas, Addatta, Jindatta, Priyamitra, and Dharmaruchi. || 113-115 ||
Perhaps, King Megharatha took initiation from the teacher Sumandara. Seeing this, the merchant Dhanadatta also became initiated along with his nine sons. || 116 ||
And Subhadra, the wife of the merchant Dhanadatta, and her two daughters, Sudarshana and Sujyeshta, also took initiation together. || 117 ||
Perhaps, Dhanadatta, the merchant, Sumandara, the teacher, and Megharatha, the king, all three became monks. || 118 ||