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## The Seventy-Seventh Festival
**1.** And thus, the noble one, with a peaceful soul, an ornament of the three worlds, was adorned with the Anuvrata by the Muni, according to the prescribed rules.
**2.** United with right faith, he was a possessor of right knowledge, engaged in right conduct, and complete in the householder's dharma. He was like a wild elephant.
**3.** He observed fasts for a fortnight or a month, and after the fast, he would perform his Parana with fallen leaves, once a day.
**4.** This elephant, fearful of the world, devoted to right actions, and full of purity, was worshipped by people and roamed the earth.
**5.** At the time of Parana, people offered him sweet laddoos, mandakas, and various kinds of puris with great respect.
**6.** His body and karma were both extremely weakened, bound by the pillar of passion, and controlled by the whip of Yama. This elephant performed intense austerities for four years.
**7.** Gradually abandoning food, he intensified his austerities. He attained the Brahma-uttar heaven after performing Sallekhana.
**8.** Adorned with garlands and earrings, surrounded by beautiful women, he enjoyed the pleasures of the gods, due to the influence of his past good deeds.
**9.** Bharata, too, was a great soul, a great observer of the Mahavratas, a universal being, firm like a mountain, a renunciant of external and internal possessions, free from attachment to the body, a great hero, and a devotee of the four forms of worship. He would sit where the sun sets.
**10.** He roamed about righteously, engaged in the four forms of worship.
**11.** He was free from bondage like the wind, fearless like a lion, undisturbed like the ocean, and unshakable like Mount Meru.
**12.** He was a Digambara, adorned with the armor of truth, armed with the arrows of forgiveness, and always engaged in conquering the enemies of the soul. He was always engaged in the battle of austerities.
**13.** He was equal to both enemies and friends, equal in happiness and sorrow, equal to grass and jewels. He was a great Shraman, with an equal mind.