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Jain Terms Preserved:
1. The Padma Purana states that many wise people are blessed with the power of consecration. The Puranas mention that those who have obtained the consecration through the power of Anantaveerya and others are 'Dhubhulabdhabhishechanaḥ' (those who have obtained the consecration on the celestial ground).
2. One who offers gifts with devotion in the presence of the Jina attains the highest prosperity and good health.
3. One who celebrates a grand festival with singing, dancing, and music in the Jina temple attains the supreme festival in heaven.
4. The festivities and enjoyments of one who constructs a Jaina temple are beyond description.
5. One who promptly gets the images of the Jina lords installed attains the supreme happiness of the gods and the asuras and reaches the highest state.
6. The merits acquired by the embodied beings through vows, knowledge, austerities, and charity in all the three times and the three worlds cannot equal even a fraction of the merit acquired by getting a single Jina image installed.
7. The fruit that is prescribed, the beings attain in heaven, and then in the state of human birth, they enjoy the status of Chakravarti and others.
8. One who thus practices dharma in this manner crosses the ocean of transmigration and stands at the summit of the three worlds.
9. The fruit of the fourth dhyana, the sixth udyana, the beginning of the eighth, the tenth in the journey, and something in the middle of the twelfth (vow) - the fruit of the monthly fast is obtained by the sight of the Chaitya.
10. Approaching the Chaitya courtyard, one attains the fruit of the Pauṣadha vow. Entering the door, one obtains the fruit of the annual fast.
11. Circumambulating and then partaking (the fruit), one obtains the fruit of a hundred years. Beholding the face of the Jina, one attains the fruit of a thousand years.
12. One attains infinite fruit by praising spontaneously. There is no higher merit than the devotion to the Jina lords.
13. Bhakti (devotion) to the Jina lords destroys karma. The one whose karma is destroyed attains the unparalleled bliss.