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In the Padma Purana,
The great sage, having given up his adornments and garments, uprooted his hair with five fingers. (283)
Then, King Indra placed those hair into a treasure chest and afterward cast them on his head in the ocean of milk. (284)
Having established his glory for the purpose of Jain initiation, the divine beings and thoughtful humans departed as they had arrived. (285)
Thousands of kings, who could not comprehend the Lord's intent, attained the state of nakedness driven solely by their devotion to their masters. (286)
Then, after half a year, the Lord Vṛṣabhadeva remained steadfast in the practice of fasting like the Sumeru mountain. (287)
His disheveled hair, blown by the wind, appeared like the smokey formations of karmic bondage burning in the fire of meditation. (288)
Then, before six months had passed, the group of kings who had taken initiation together was defeated by the great warriors known as Parīṣhads. (289)
Some of those kings fell to the ground, struck by the wind of suffering, while some, due to their strong vitality, sat on the earth. (290)
Some, tormented by hunger, abandoned their fasting to eat fruits. Others, tortured by their bodies, entered cool water. (291)
Some, breaking the bonds of righteousness, began to enter the caves of the mountains like maddened elephants, while others, regaining their senses, prepared to see Lord Jinendra. (292)
Among all those kings, the son of Bharata, Mārīchi, was quite arrogant, and so he donned saffron robes and became an ascetic, along with many others wearing the bark garments. (293)
When those kings, in the form of naked individuals, were about to collect fruits and other things, the invisible gods pronounced the following words in the sky: "O kings! Do not perform this action while being naked, for it will indeed become a source of great suffering for you." (294-295)
Hearing the words of the deities, many individuals donned leaves of trees.
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