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The Navottara Shata Parva
A being whose cheeks had sunk in, covered only by skin, with a high, dry brow, resembling a dried-up river. She walked the earth for a period of time equal to a Yuga, with a gentle gaze, taking alms according to the rules, protecting her body through tapas. She had become so otherworldly through tapas that even her own people could not recognize her in the streets.
Seeing her, people would always tell her story. Those who saw her once and then again could not recognize her as the same being.
In this way, she performed excellent tapas for sixty-two years, and then, after performing the perfect Sallekhana for thirty-three days, she abandoned her body, like a discarded garment, and ascended to the Aran-Achyuta realm, attaining the position of Pratyindra.
Gautama Swami says, "Behold the greatness of Dharma in the Jina's teachings! This being, having abandoned the female form, became a male, the lord of the gods!"
In that Kalpa, where the sky was illuminated by the brilliance of jewels, and where the presence of gold and other precious substances created a wondrous and extraordinary spectacle, she attained the position of Pratyindra in the Achyuta heaven, residing in a celestial chariot resembling the peak of Mount Meru, filled with her family, and possessing supreme wealth.
There, she was the object of the gaze of hundreds of thousands of goddesses, and, surrounded by a retinue of stars, she shone like the moon.
In this way, King Shrenik heard from the mouth of Gautama Ganadhar many other excellent stories and ancient tales that destroy sin.
Then, King Shrenik asked, "At that time, in the Aran-Achyuta Kalpa, who was the lord of the gods, the Indra, who was so glorious that even the Indra of the gods, Sita, was his rival in terms of tapas?"
In response, Ganadhar Bhagwan said, "At that time, Madhuka was the Indra of the Aran-Achyuta heaven. His brother was Katabha, and he enjoyed the great wealth of Indra for twenty-two oceans.
After the passage of sixty-four thousand years, in due course, due to the influence of his remaining good deeds, Madhu...