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Knowing this twenty-first **Parva**, which is strange, the beings of the world, engulfed in the great ocean of the **Kalikaluṣa** (the pollution of the Kali Yuga), are burning in the great suffering of the **Nīcagatī** (lower realms) like fire. Knowing this, some **Bhavyas** (future Jinas) do not even desire this world. Some want to make the acquaintance of **Puṇya** (merit), and some, like the sun, end their **Moha** (delusion) and attain pure **Kevalajñāna** (omniscience). ||25||
Thus ends the twenty-first **Parva** called **Tīrthankara Bhavanukīrtana** (the narration of the births of the Tīrthankaras) in the **Padmacarita** (the story of the lotus) narrated by **Raviṣeṇa Ācārya**, known as **Ārya**. ||20||
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