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Chapter Forty-Five
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Just as food is essential for life, so too is your presence. Without you, we have no livelihood. Please be gracious to us, O Lord. ||22||
We are like servants who can be sent here and there, while you are like an ocean, impossible to contain. Even though you have transgressed your own limits, we have survived because of your merit. ||23||
You are the life-giver to all, like water. Just as fire heats water, someone has angered you against us. Please cool down now, like water. ||24||
If you are unwilling to be appeased, then accept these sons and daughters and protect them. I will go to the shelter of the feet of Shri Vrishabhadeva. ||25||
Thus, surrounded by terrestrial and celestial beings, Arkakirti was pleased, satisfied, and placed on a magnificent elephant, leading the procession. For eight days, a grand peace ceremony was performed, culminating in a great abhisheka, to pacify all sins. ||26-27||
Akampan, who knew the rituals of reconciliation, summoned Jayakumar and, at that very moment, brought about a reconciliation between them, generating immense love and an unbreakable unity. ||28||
Then, Arkakirti was given a daughter named Akshimala, along with great wealth and all kinds of riches. He was honored and escorted a short distance before being bid farewell. ||29||
Similarly, other terrestrial and celestial kings were honored with precious jewels, elephants, and horses, and they were also promptly dismissed. ||30||
Filled with shame for their injustice, they all returned to their own cities. This is right, for wisdom is that which quickly rectifies the wrongs committed by fate. ||31||