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In the Padma Purana, it is said that the great Indra, adorned with the finest pleasures, had rejected the immense happiness of the Indra-world from afar. ||26||
Ha-ha, hoo-hoo, the celestial musicians like Tumburu, Narada, and Vishvavasu, along with the Kinnara women and many Apsaras, sang and danced with their veenas, flutes, and other instruments. Many goddesses bathed him, applying fragrant pastes and other beauty treatments. ||27-28||
The Lord, with his beautiful body, enjoyed the company of women in their youth, adorned with charming smiles, shyness, pride, jealousy, grace, and other captivating qualities, as he desired. ||29||
Seeing the clouds of the autumn season dissolving, he was awakened to the desire for liberation. At that time, the celestial beings praised him. ||30||
He then relinquished all desires and gave his kingdom, where all the vassals were submissive and lived happily, to his son, Suvrata. ||31||
Then, he emerged from the lotus-garden, his body fragrant with divine unguents, attracting a multitude of eager bees with its sweet scent. The garden was filled with green gem-like leaves, white lotus petals like rows of teeth, the sounds of birds singing and ornaments jingling, waves of water, and swan-like breasts. He emerged from this garden of beautiful women like a swan from a lotus pond. ||32-35||
Then, the Lord Munisuvratanatha, the jewel of humanity, mounted the Aparajita palanquin, carried by gods and kings, and went to the vast garden called Vipula. ||36||
After descending from the palanquin, the Lord Munisuvratanatha, the ornament of the Hari-dynasty, took Jain initiation along with thousands of kings. ||37||
When the Lord took initiation, he observed a two-day fast. After the fast, in the city of Rajagriha, Vrishabhadatt, with devotion, gave him food for the breaking of the fast. ||38||