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## Mahapuranam [Uttarakhandam] Thirty-Fourth Parva
May the glorious Vrishabha, with the bull as his banner, grant us prosperity. His single departure led to the creation of a great path to liberation. [1]
He whose lotus feet are worshipped by Indra himself, and who, by conquering the army of karma, achieved the kingship of the three worlds through the Dharmachakra. [2]
Like the sun at the beginning of the day, he arose at the beginning of the fourth kalpa, illuminating the entire world with his rays of speech, i.e., by preaching the essence of all truths through divine sound. [3]
He, who, by pointing out the path to liberation, increased the number of Siddhas, even when the path to liberation was lost for eighteen kotis of oceans of kalpas in the Utsarpini and Avasarpini kalpas. [4]
Just as the defeat caused by taking the name of another Chakravarti did not touch Bharat Chakravarti, the first Chakravarti of this era, similarly, the defeat caused by taking the name of another Tirthankara did not touch him, who was the first Tirthankara of this era. [5]
The preaching of liberation by other Tirthankaras became redundant due to the illumination of the path to liberation by him. [6]
**Note:** Vrishabhadev was born at the end of the third kalpa and attained liberation in the same kalpa. Therefore, it is worth considering why Acharya Gunabhadra has mentioned him as being at the beginning of the fourth kalpa.