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Seeing his two reflections in the mirror, while adorned with ornaments, the king wondered within himself, "What is this?" 412
Having attained knowledge, the destruction of the obscurations of knowledge and the wealth of liberation, he remembered his past lives and attained dispassion. 463
All wealth is like the shadow of a cloud, Lakshmi is like the brilliance of lightning, the body is illusory, life is like the morning shadow, constantly diminishing, loved ones are like strangers, union is like separation, increase is like decrease, and this birth is like the previous birth. 464-465
Contemplating all this, the king, free from evil desires, decided to leave his home. 466
At that time, the celestial beings came and said, "This is the time for you, O Lord, to establish this Dharma-tirtha, whose lineage has been broken for a long time." 467
The great-minded Shanti Nath, accepting their words, happily gave his kingdom to his son, Narayana. 468
Then, the king of the celestial beings, Indra, performed his initiation ceremony. Thus, the Lord, the foremost among the virtuous, leaving behind all his relatives through wise words, ascended the palanquin called Sarvartha-siddhi, carried by the celestial beings, and reached the Sahasramravana, where he sat facing north on a beautiful stone platform in the Paryakaasana posture. On the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight of the month of Jyeshtha, in the evening, during the Bharani constellation, he established his practice, paid homage to the Siddhas, renounced all his possessions, and plucked out his hair, which was like the roots of afflictions, with five handfuls. Smiling with the brilliance of the Jatarupa, he attained the Jatarupa-Digambara form. Immediately, he attained purity in the Samayika and the knowledge of Manahparyaya. Indra placed his hair in a blazing casket. Many bees came to rest on his hair due to its fragrance, making it seem as if they had multiplied. Indra threw his hair towards the other side of the ocean of milk. 469-475
With Chakraayudha and others, a thousand kings, along with their retinues, attained liberation through the grace of Shanti Nath, the destroyer of afflictions. 476