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## The Eighty-Seventh Chapter
Sixty thousand celestial beings, great sages, shone there, seated, surrounded like the moon by stars. ||60||
The Muni, seated on a pure, secluded rock, engaged in white meditation, attained Kevala Jnana in that very night. ||61||
O Shrenik! Listen to the wondrous, delightful description of his extraordinary qualities, which dispel sin. ||12||
And then, with the arising of Kevala Jnana, the Muni, freed from the obstacle of Viriya Karma, became the master of infinite strength and ascended the divine throne. From the netherworld, the dwellers of the earth, the Vayu Kumaras, Naga Kumaras, Vidyut Kumaras, and Suparna Kumaras, along with the eight types of Vyantara beings, starting with the Kinnaras, the five types of celestial beings, including the Sun, Moon, and planets, and the sixteen types of Kalpavasis, including the Saudharma, all the Devas from the four realms, had gone to the festival celebrating the birth of a Tirthankara in the Ghataki Khandadvipa. There, they had performed a grand puja and, with auspicious, jeweled and golden pitchers, had bathed the Devadhideva, the Jina, the child, and praised him with beautiful words. Then, returning from there, they had placed the Jina child, who, even in his childhood, was free from childish fickleness, in his mother's lap. After paying their respects to the Jina child, the Devas, filled with joy, returned from Mount Meru and performed the appropriate rituals, like the Tandava dance, at the Tirthankara's home. Then, returning from there, they came to Lanka to witness the celebration of the Muni's Kevala Jnana and approached him. Drawn by the Muni's influence, some of the Devas rode in magnificent chariots, adorned with large garlands of jewels, shining like the sun, and of appropriate size. Some rode on white, magnificent swans, like conch shells. Some rode on elephants whose temples, due to the intoxicating fragrance of their superior musk, were swollen and adorned with swarms of black bees. Some rode on tigers and lions with fearsome faces and teeth like young moons. All the Devas, with joyful hearts, approached the Muni. At that time, the sound of drums,
1. This section is written in a rhythmic prose style, with hints of the Bhujangaprayata meter throughout. ||11-3||