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704
Harivamsha Purana
The Jina, while wandering through the various countries of Surastra, Matsya, Lata, the vast Shurasen, Patacchara, Kurujangala, Panchala, Kushagra, Magadha, Anjana, Anga, Vanga, and Kalinga, established the Jain Dharma among the Kshatriya and other castes. ||110-111||
Thereafter, while wandering, the Jina arrived in the country called Malaya and resided in the Sahasramra forest of the city of Bhadrailpur. ||112||
As before, the four types of Devas also created a Samavasarana there, and the Jina, adorned with the Ganadharas, became resplendent in it. ||113||
The king of that city, Paunda, along with the city dwellers, came to the Samavasarana, and with folded hands, he praised and bowed to the Jina, taking a seat on the human platform. ||114||
The six sons of Devaki, who resided with Sudrishti Seth and Alaka Sethani, increasing their joy in their sons, also came to the Samavasarana. ||115||
Each of them had thirty-two wives, who were extremely radiant and surpassed even Indra's Indrani in their beauty and other qualities. ||116||
Those six brothers, possessing immense vigor, descended from their six separate chariots, went to the Samavasarana, bowed to the Jina, praised him, and sat down on the human platform along with the king. ||117||
At that time, the Jina preached to the assembly the Shravaka Dharma, adorned with Samyagdarshana, and the Muni Dharma, which destroys karma. ||118||
Thereafter, having heard the nectar of Dharma from the Jina, those six brothers, who had understood the true nature of reality, became detached from the world, informed their relatives, and at the feet of the Jina, received the initiation that grants the Lakshmi of liberation, becoming free from attachments. ||119-120||
Those princes, who had attained the powers of seed-knowledge, etc., studied the twelve-limbed Shruta-knowledge and performed severe austerities. ||121||
The fasts, etc., of these six Munis, their Dharanas, Paranas, Trikalika Yoga, and their actions of sleeping, sitting, etc., all occurred simultaneously. ||122||
The bodies of those Munis, who were engaged in the highest austerities, became even more radiant than before. ||123||
These six Munis, who served the feet of the Tirthankaras, attained the highest level of internal and external austerities, being mutually comparable and incomparable. ||124||