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## Description of the Kingdom - A Request by the Lokantik Devas
**Chapter 1, First Light, Verse 10**
Kubera, the lord of wealth, built that city and filled it with inexhaustible jewels, clothes, and grains. The palaces, made of diamonds, sapphires, and vaidurya gems, cast various colored rays in the sky, creating paintings without walls. The fortresses were adorned with brilliant ruby pinnacles, serving as mirrors for the celestial beings. Wealth flowed into every house in the city. They had made swastikas of pearls, with which young girls played freely like pebbles. In the city's gardens, the tops of tall trees brushed against the celestial chariots, making them seem like bird nests for a while. The heaps of large, tall gems in the city's markets and palaces made Mount Rohana look like a pile of mud. There, the women, engrossed in water sports, shone like the Tamraparni river due to the scattered pearls from their broken necklaces. The city was inhabited by great wealthy people. It seemed as if even Kubera, the merchant prince, had come to do business with one of them. At night, the water flowing from the walls of the palaces made of Chandrakanta gems washed away the dust from the paths. In that same city, there were millions of wells, ponds, lakes, and new amritakunds, filled with sweet, nectar-like water, surpassing even the Nagaloka.
**Description of the Governance**
King Rishabha adorned that city and nurtured his subjects like his own sons. For the welfare of the people, King Rishabha taught his subjects five arts, each with twenty variations. For the stability of the kingdom, he gathered cows, horses, elephants, etc., and made them domesticated. He also taught the art of statecraft, which included strategies like Sama, Dama, etc. He taught his eldest son, Bharata, seventy-two arts. Bharata, in turn, taught those arts to his brothers, his sons, and other men. King Rishabha taught Bhallata the various characteristics of elephants, horses, women, and men. He taught his daughter Brahmi eighteen scripts with her right hand and his daughter Sundari mathematics with her left hand. After that, he established the Varna system and implemented the path of justice. In this way, Shri Rishabhdev, the son of Nabhi, completed eighty-three lakh years of his life.
**The Request of the Lokantik Devas**
Once, in the month of Vaishakh, at the insistence of his family, King Rishabha went to a garden that was like a dwelling built by Kamadeva for him. Seeing the blooming mango blossoms, the Lord was filled with joy. The bees hummed, as if welcoming the Lord. It was as if Vasantalakshmi had manifested in the garden. The cuckoo sang in five notes, as if acting as the sutradhar of a play, introducing the scene. The wind made the creepers dance. The gentle, fragrant Malaya breeze made the Lord seem as if he were sitting in a flower house, adorned with flower ornaments, holding a flower staff in his hand. Seeing the group of women gathered around the branches of the trees, curious to pick flowers, it seemed as if these trees were filled with female fruits. Thus, the Lord became so adorned in that garden, as if he were the spring itself. There, many children were playing happily. Seeing them, the Lord thought, "Is the play of the Douguindak Devas like this?" At that time, the Lord, using his knowledge of the past, contemplated the pleasures of his previous births in the Uttara Devaloka, and delved deeper into the experience of the known pleasures of the higher Devalokas. The Lord's attachments were destroyed, so he immediately changed his thoughts, thinking, "He who does not understand his own self-interest gets trapped in these worldly pleasures." "Shame on that soul who, like the bells of a well-wheel, keeps going up and down in various high and low places due to karma, in this well of the world." Thus, diving into the ocean of thought, the Lord's mind turned away from the world. At that moment, the Lokantik Devas, including Sarasvat, arrived to serve the Lord. They bowed with folded hands and prayed to the Lord, "Lord! Now, please establish the pilgrimage." After the Devas left, the Lord returned to the city from the Nandan garden and summoned the kings. He organized a ceremony and, in the presence of all the kings, crowned his eldest son, Bharata, as king. After that, the Lord distributed the kingdom to his sons, including Bhallata. Then, he gave charity for a year (Samvatsari), so that there would be no begging in the earth, no one would have to say, "Give me." The thrones of all the Indras trembled, so they came there and, like rain falling on a mountain, they performed the Lord's abhisheka. They showered him with garlands of flowers, fragrant