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Forty-five lakhs, then one lakh more, then six lakhs, then five are declared. ||89|| Eighty thousand, then eight hundred and a half, then three hundred and a half are declared. ||10|| The Dharma of Vardhamana Jinendra is touched by suffering. When Mahavira, the great lord of the Dharmachakra, is gone, ||11|| When the arrival of the gods is freed, when the extraordinary is gone, ||12|| When the birth of Kevala is lost, when the holder of the plough-wheel is abandoned, ||13|| When the qualities of a great king like you are gone, ||14|| The people will become wicked, their minds always eager to deceive. ||15|| They will be without playfulness, withdrawn, full of pain and disease, false-sighted, very terrible, and unreformable. ||16|| There will be excessive rain, no rain, and uneven rain. There will be various unbearable ways that will cause unbearable suffering to living beings. ||17|| They will be intoxicated by the intoxicating fog of delusion, their bodies will be like lumps of attachment and aversion, their eyebrows and hands will always be moving, they will be very sinful, they will always smile with pride, they will be eager to speak harsh words, they will be merciless, they will always be engaged in accumulating wealth, and they will wander on the earth like fireflies or glowworms in the night, that is, they will be of little influence. ||18-19|| They will be fools themselves, and they will fall into the path of the goad, which is full of various evil deeds, and they will lead others into it. They will be of a wicked nature, always engaged in harming others and themselves. They will know the Self as the Siddha, but they will be destined for hell. ||20||
After the thirteenth, the pure Vimala was born. After nine Sagaras passed, the fourteenth, Ananta, was born. After four Sagaras passed, the fifteenth, Shridharmanatha, was born. After three Sagaras less than a quarter of a Paly passed, the sixteenth, Shanti, was born. After half a Paly passed, the seventeenth, Kunthunatha, was born. After a thousand years less than a quarter of a Paly passed, the eighteenth, Aranatha, was born. After a thousand crore Sagaras less than sixty-five lakhs eighty-four thousand years passed, the nineteenth, Mallinatha, was born. After fifty-four lakh years passed, the twentieth, Munisuvratanatha, was born. After six lakh years passed, the twenty-first, Naminatha, was born. After five lakh years passed, the twenty-second, Neminatha, was born. After three-quarters of eighty-four thousand years passed, the twenty-third, Shriparshvanatha, was born. And after two hundred and fifty years passed, the twenty-fourth, Shree Vardhamana Swami, was born. The Dharma of Bhagavan Vardhamana Swami is prevalent in this fifth time, whose two feet are washed by the water of the radiance of the crowns of the Indras, who is the originator of the Dharma-chakra, and who was the holder of great wealth. After the departure of Mahavira Swami, who was the holder of great wealth, the fifth time will come, in which the arrival of the gods will cease, all the extraordinary will be destroyed, the birth of Kevalajnana will cease, the birth of Balabhadra, Narayana, and Chakravartis will also cease. And the time will be devoid of the qualities worthy of a great king like you. Then the people will become very wicked, their minds will always be eager to deceive each other. The people of that time will be without playfulness and withdrawn, full of various pains and diseases, false-sighted and very terrible. ||84-94|| There will be excessive rain, no rain, and uneven rain. There will be various unbearable ways that will cause unbearable suffering to living beings. ||95|| The people of that time will be intoxicated by the intoxicating fog of delusion, their bodies will be like lumps of attachment and aversion, their eyebrows and hands will always be moving, they will be very sinful, they will always smile with pride, they will be eager to speak harsh words, they will be merciless, they will always be engaged in accumulating wealth, and they will wander on the earth like fireflies or glowworms in the night, that is, they will be of little influence. ||96-97|| They will be fools themselves, and they will fall into the path of the goad, which is full of various evil deeds, and they will lead others into it. They will be of a wicked nature, always engaged in harming others and themselves. They will know the Self as the Siddha, but they will be destined for hell. ||98||