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Saptatitimaparva
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At the end of sixteen and a half months, he exhaled without any disturbance. After the passage of thirty-three thousand years, he experienced the state of enjoyment. 6 Being absorbed, without any contemplation, the limit of his knowledge of the world-channels was reached. He was endowed with the qualities of strength, brilliance, and transformations, etc., only to the extent of that region. 61 Thus, in the divine state, he experienced the great ocean of divine happiness. Having attained complete satisfaction, he remained in eternal blissful longevity. 62 Thereafter, the narration of his lineage is made. In the Jambudvipa, in the Bharata region, there was a country named Vatsa. 63 In the famous city of Kaushambi, there was a king named Maghavan. His queen was Vitashoka. In due course, their son named Raghu was born. 64 In that very city, there lived a very wealthy merchant named Sumukha. At one time, a Vaishya named Veeradatta, son of a merchant, came to Kaushambi city from the Kalinga region, along with his companions and his wife Vanamala, due to the fear of hunters. 65-66 Sumukha, the merchant, provided him shelter in Kaushambi city. One day, while Sumukha was wandering in the forest, he saw Vanamala. Cupid, as it were, made him his target with his sharp arrows - he was struck by the arrows of desire. 67-68 Thereafter, the deceitful and sinful merchant sent Veeradatta away for twelve years, providing him with abundant livelihood, and wrongfully accepted the corrupted Vanamala as his own wife. 69 After twelve years, when Veeradatta returned, upon hearing about the incident, he contemplated on the miserable state of the world. 70 Distressed by sorrow, devoid of merits, and without any refuge, Veeradatta renounced the world and took refuge with the ascetic Proshthila. 71 At the end of his life, he renounced and attained the divine state of Chittrangada, the lord of the Saudharma heaven, who is the abode of contemplative happiness. 72 The merchant Sumukha and Vanamala also, one day, provided alms to the ascetic Dharmasingha, and condemned their own misdeeds. 73 The next day, they both met the same end by the falling of the forest. They were the lords of enjoyment in the Harivamsha region of Bharata. 74-75