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## The Sixty-First Chapter
Where ten pure Dharmas arise, that Dharma grants me peace, destroying our Adharma. ||1||
In the eastern part of the Dhaataki-khand, on the banks of the river in the eastern Videha, in the southern Vatsa country, there is a great city called Suseema. ||2||
King Dasharatha ruled there, endowed with wisdom, valor, and fortune. He was the master of his enemies, free from worldly pursuits, and lived in peace. ||3||
He was always eager to protect his subjects and enjoyed the happiness of Dharma, along with his relatives and friends. ||4||
On the full moon day of Madhava (Vaisakha), during a festival, a lunar eclipse occurred. Seeing this, King Dasharatha's mind became immediately saddened. ||5||
"This moon is beautiful, delighting the lotus flowers (the celestial sphere), and is full of arts. If even it has reached this state, what is the state of other men?" ||6||
Thinking thus, he entrusted the kingdom to his son, Maharatha, and embraced non-attachment, becoming light and accepting restraint. ||7||
He was a follower of the eleven Angas, contemplated the sixteen causes of existence, bound himself to the merit of the Tirthankaras, and purified his intellect at the end of his life. ||8||
He was the lord of all, with thirty-three oceans as his domain, his body a cubit high, and he breathed once every four hundred and ninety days, or sixteen and a half months. ||9||
His pure knowledge of the Avadhi extended to the end of the Lokanali, and he was endowed with the power of action, brilliance, and strength that extended as far. ||10||
He gathered his mental food once every thirty thousand years, and was adorned with both the material and spiritual white leśyā. ||11||
Thus, he experienced the supreme happiness of all-encompassing attainment, free from doubt. He was ready to be reborn in the human realm, being a worthy recipient of merit. ||12||
On this Jambudvipa, in the Bharat Kshetra, there was a city called Ratnapur. In that city, King Bhanu, a descendant of the Kuru dynasty, of the Kashyapa gotra, was a great hero, endowed with immense wealth and fortune. His queen was named Suprabha, and the gods honored her with showers of jewels and other riches. ||13||
May the Jina Dharmanatha Bhagavan, with his utmost purity, supreme forbearance, and the ten Dharmas, destroy our Adharma and grant us peace. ||1||