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## The Eighth Chapter of the Parshvanatha Charitra
**Verse 27:** A period of rain lasting for six days is called *tray*, eighty days is called *kanashikara*, and sixty days of rain interspersed with sunshine is called *samavristhi*.
**Verse 28:** The qualities of the *Harihara* and others have become insignificant, but these qualities have become prominent in Vasupujya Bhagavan. This is appropriate, because a special abode does not enhance the special qualities of anyone.
**Verse 29:** Since all things are made of qualities, and are filled with qualities, the destruction of qualities would lead to the destruction of the object itself. Knowing this, the wise Vasupujya Bhagavan carefully nurtured all qualities.
**Verse 30:** When eighteen lakh years of his youth had passed, the wise Bhagavan, detached from the world, began to contemplate the true nature of things within his mind.
**Verse 31:** This foolish being, attached to worldly objects, binds his own soul through his own actions, and experiences four types of suffering due to four types of bondage. He wanders in this endless forest of samsara. Now, I have attained the right path, which reveals the supreme qualities through the attainment of *kala* and other *labdhis*. Therefore, I should attain the liberation, the *sadgati*.
**Verse 32:** Let the body be pure, stable, beautiful, free from disease, long-lasting, free from obstacles, and constantly provided with the means of happiness.
**Verse 33:** But it is certain that the separation from all these things is inevitable. This sensual pleasure is in the form of attachment. An attached being binds himself with karma, and bondage is the cause of samsara.
**Verse 34:** Samsara is in the form of the four *gatis*, and all four *gatis* are the givers of both suffering and happiness. Therefore, what is the use of this samsara for me? It is something that should be abandoned by the wise.
**Verse 35:** While Bhagavan was contemplating this, the worldly gods came and began to praise him. The gods performed the *abhisheka* ceremony, adorned him with ornaments, and celebrated various festivals during the *diksha-kalyanak*.
**Verse 36:** King Vasupujya, mounted on a palanquin carried by the gods, went to the beautiful garden called *Manoharo-dyan*. There, he observed a two-day fast, and on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight of *Phalguna*, under the *Visakha* constellation, he accepted the *samayika* vow, and became a holder of *manahparyaya-jnana*.
**Verse 37:** Along with him, six hundred and seventy-six kings, who knew the ultimate truth, also took *diksha* with great joy.
**Verse 38:** On the second day, they entered the great city of *Andhas* for food. There, a king named *Sundara*, whose complexion was like gold, offered them food.
**Verse 39:** And in the year of the *Pancha-ascharya*, after the passing of *Sri Vasupujya*, his disciple came to the *diksha-vana*.
**Verse 40:** This king's intellect became the best fruit-bearing one.
**Verse 41:** The rain of the *shat-gatap-megha* is called *mesha-vristhi*.