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## The Eighteenth Chapter: The Acquisition of the Kingdom of Samudravijaya
**275** Having praised the Muni, Nandishena attained perfect knowledge and, following the path of the Jinas, ascended to the heavens. **17** After spending thirty-five thousand years in the heavens, the wise Muni, Nandishena, embraced the final six months of his life in renunciation. **171** He renounced his body and food, and did not engage in any actions that would bind his soul. Yet, due to the intensity of his attachment, he bound himself with the desire to be wealthy and fortunate in his next life. **172** If the Muni had not entertained this condemned desire at that time, he would have surely attained the state of a Tirthankara through his own power. **173** After that, he became a great deity, equal to Indra, in the Maha-Shukra heaven, and remained there in happiness for sixteen and a half Sagaras. **174** O King! That same son, after enjoying the pleasures of the heavens, was born as a son named Vasudeva to your queen, Subhadra, on this earth. **175** Hearing this, the Andhaka-Vrishnis, their queen Subhadra, and their son Samudravijaya, along with all the other humans and gods present, attained faith and devotion to the Dharma. **176** After paying their respects to the Kevali, Su-prati-shtha, the gods returned to their respective abodes. Then, the king, Andhaka-Vrishni, who was destined to end his cycle of births, crowned Samudravijaya as king and placed him on the throne. He then entrusted Vasudeva with the task of conquering the oceans and, taking initiation at the feet of the Kevali, Su-prati-shtha, he renounced the world. **177-178** Meanwhile, Bhojaka-Vrishni also renounced the world, taking the vows of a Nirgrantha, and placed Ugrasena on the throne of the entire kingdom of Mathura. **179** King Samudravijaya, having adorned his beloved queen, Shivadevi, with a sacred thread, made her the most prominent among all women. Just as the Jina, the sun, with his eight auspicious qualities, illuminates and delights the beautiful lotuses, the eight auspicious qualities, with his unparalleled splendor, delights his relatives, the lotuses, while protecting the order of the kingdom. **180** Thus ends the eighteenth chapter of the Harivansha Purana, composed by Jinasena Acharya, which narrates the acquisition of the kingdom by Samudravijaya, a collection of the Puranas, and the story of Arishtanemi. **18**
**One should understand the devotion to the Dharma.** **169**