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In the Mahapurana, the Uttara Purana, Vibhishana and five hundred kings, along with eighty of their sons, embraced the path of Sannyam. ||711|| Similarly, Sita, the Mahadevi, and Prithvi Sundari, along with other deities, received initiation near the Shanta Aryika. ||712|| The king and the prince, having taken the vows of a Shravak, bowed down to the feet of the Jina and entered the city. ||713|| Rama and Anuman, both Munis, practiced the path of liberation according to their capacity and in accordance with the scriptures, becoming Shruta Kevali. ||714|| The remaining Munis also attained the sevenfold wealth of wisdom, etc. Thus, after three hundred and ninety-five years of the Chhadmastha period, due to the brilliance of the Shuddha Dhyana, the Muni Ramachandra, who was a destroyer of harmful karmas, attained Kevala Jnana, like the sun. ||715-716|| Adorned with the unique powers of the single umbrella, etc., the Kevali Ramachandra, through the rain of Dharma, watered the plants of the Bhavyas, who were like grains. ||717|| In this way, after spending six hundred years with Kevala Jnana, on the fourteenth day of the bright fortnight of the month of Phalguna, he ascended the peak of Sammed Shikhar, and, having attained the three Yogas, he took refuge in the fourth Shuddha Dhyana, called Samuccchhinna Kriya Pratipati, and destroyed all his harmful karmas. Thus, with the destruction of the three bodies, Audarika, Taijasa, and Karman, he attained the highest position, along with Anuman, etc. ||718-720|| Vibhishana, etc., some attained the Anu-disha, and Sita, Prithvi Sundari, etc., the wives of Rama and Lakshmana, were born in the Achyuta heaven. ||721|| The remaining wives were born in the first heaven. Lakshmana, having emerged from hell, will gradually embrace Sannyam and attain the wealth of liberation. ||722|| This is indeed the case, for there is such diversity among beings. ||723|| Those who crossed the ocean like a Gopa, who surrounded the enemy's city with their army like a small house, who uprooted the enemy's entire lineage like a grain, and who, along with Lakshmana, abducted the enemy's daughter, the earth's daughter, ||724||