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## The Sixty-Third Chapter
**783**
Even when afflicted by rough particles of lac, grass, and gravel in his bed, seat, etc., his inner self remained undisturbed, and he endured the **Tṛṇasparśa-pariṣaha** (affliction of touching grass) well. || 108 ||
The white-bodied Muni, covered in dirt, never touched his body with his fingernails, and he remained radiant like the moon covered in dark clouds on the peak of a mountain. || 109 ||
He felt no joy when others honored him, and no distress when they disrespected him. He always kept his intellect pure, and thus he endured the **Satskāra-puruskāra-pariṣaha** (affliction of honor and reward) well. || 110 ||
At this time, there is no one on earth who is a better orator, speaker, poet, or great poet than him. He did not allow this pride to taint him in the slightest, thanks to his **Prajñā-pariṣaha** (affliction of wisdom). || 111 ||
This one is neither ignorant, nor an animal, nor a human. He does not see, nor does he speak falsely. He has simply taken a vow of silence. He endured the **Ajñāna-pariṣaha** (affliction of ignorance) from such ignorant people. || 112 ||
It is pointless to say that great wealth is obtained through the power of intense austerities, because we have not seen any such wealth obtained even today. Thus, the pure and right-seeing Baldeva Muni never said such a thing. He endured the **Adarśana-pariṣaha** (affliction of not seeing) well. || 113 ||
Thus, the Muni Baldeva, who had destroyed the enemies in the form of **pariṣaha**, who was the destroyer of the vices of the five senses, who was extremely beautiful in body, and who wandered in the realms of the **Samyak-cāritra** (right conduct) as ordained by the Jinas, performed austerities for a long time. || 114 ||
Thus ends the sixty-third chapter of the **Harivaṁśa-purāṇa** composed by Jinaseṇa Ācārya, which is part of the **Ariṣṭanemi-purāṇa**, and which describes the austerities of Baldeva. || 63 ||
**Note:** There is a difference in the order of verses 113-114 in the **K** and **ṅ** manuscripts.