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Chapter Sixty-Four
Abandoning all possessions like a discarded garment, protecting the subtle beings from the Kunthus, may Kunthunath, the guide to liberation, protect you all. ||1||
In this Jambudvipa, in the eastern Videha region, on the southern bank of the Sita river, there is a country called Vatsa. In its city of Susima, King Simharatha ruled. He was glorious, valiant like a lion, and subdued even his many enemies with his own majesty. ||2-3||
The king, who cultivated righteous conduct and punished the entire earth, was not approached by the enemy in the form of sin, as if they were afraid of him - they remained far away. ||4||
For this king, who followed the path of scriptures and destroyed his enemies, the experience of enjoyment itself provided him with both worldly and otherworldly success. ||5||
Once, seeing a meteor fall from the sky, he thought to himself, "This meteor has fallen to destroy my enemy, the enemy of delusion." ||6||
At that very moment, he went to the sage Yati-Vrishabha, bowed to him, and listened with great devotion to the detailed explanation of the principles of Dharma given by him. ||7||
He, the wise one, thought, "I was bound by delusion, this meteor has informed me of danger." With this thought, desiring to abandon delusion, he quickly entrusted the burden of his kingdom to his son, along with many kings, and embraced restraint. ||8||
Becoming a renunciant, he attained the knowledge of the eleven limbs and, through the sixteen causes of contemplation, bound himself to the auspicious nature of the Tirthankara. At the end of his life, he attained Samadhi-death and was born in the final, unsurpassed, Sarvartha-siddhi plane. ||9-10||
There, with great curiosity, he experienced the uninvestigated, mental bliss, which was worthy of respect even for the sages and arose from detachment. ||11||
In this Jambudvipa, in the Kuru-jangala region of the Bharat Kshetra, there is a city called Hastinapur.