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The Eighty-sixth Festival
Hundreds and thousands of kalashas, adorned with strings of pearls, shining with the radiance of gems, and decorated with various ornaments, were seen in the homes of the householders, gathered for the abhisheka of the Jina images. [14-15]
In the temples, garlands made of Karnikar, Ati-muktak, Kadamba, Sahakar, Champaka, Parijataka, and Mandara flowers, all born in the Nandana forest, were adorned, their fragrance attracting swarms of bees. [16-17]
The Sri Jinendra Deva was worshipped with excellent offerings of lotuses made of gold, silver, and gems. [18]
The temples resounded with the loud sounds of excellent drums, trumpets, mridanga, conch shells, and other instruments. [19]
The Lankans, their mutual animosity extinguished and united in great joy, manifested the supreme glory of the Jinendra Deva. [20]
Just as the Devas in Nandishvara Dvipa, eager to worship the Jina images, manifest great glory, so too did the Vidyaadharas, devoted to devotion, manifest great glory. [21]
Ravana, the great hero, went to the Shanti Jin-alaya and, becoming pure, performed a beautiful worship of the Sri Jinendra Deva, just as Bali Raja had done before, with devotion. [22]
Gautama Swami says, "Who is capable of describing the accumulation of merit of those men who, endowed with appropriate wealth and bearing the burden of excellent devotion, worship the Sri Jinendra Deva?" [23]
Such beings, enjoying the wealth of the Devas, obtaining the good fortune of the Chakravarti's enjoyments, and finally performing austerities greater than the Sun, attain the supreme liberation, following the Jain path. [24]
Thus ends the Eighty-sixth Festival, which describes the glory of the Ashtahnika of the Phalguna month, as narrated by the Acharya Ravishena in the Padma Purana, known as the Aarsha. [18]
1. Chaitya, etc. [2. Golden] [3. Great sounds]