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## The Sixty-Seventh Chapter
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The king, having caused a sun-chariot to be made by artisans, adorned with jewels and gold, with a palace of the Jina Lord at its center, extending far and wide. || 57 ||
He performed an eight-day worship according to the scriptures, with devotion, with four faces, a chariot-like form, and the greatest Sarvatobhadra, and a Kalpavriksha that granted wishes to the poor. || 58 ||
Seeing this, all the people, due to its authenticity, began to praise it themselves. || 59 ||
With devotion, they began to praise the circle of the radiant sun. From that time onwards, in this world, the worship of the sun became prevalent. || 60 ||
Then, one day, the wise king Anand saw a white hair on his head, which split the hearts of those seeking youth in two. || 61 ||
Driven by this, he gave his kingdom to his eldest son with an abhisheka, and, renouncing worldly desires, he practiced austerities near the Muni Raja, Samudra Gupta. || 62 ||
Along with many kings, he abandoned his royal nature and, with a good Leshya, he practiced the fourfold worship. || 63 ||
He purified himself through the eleven Angas, contemplated the sixteen causes of the karma of the Tirthankaras, and, having contemplated the sixteen causes of the karma of the Tirthankaras as described in the scriptures, he bound the karma of the Tirthankara, a virtuous nature. He practiced severe austerities for a long time. || 64 ||
At the end, with a completely peaceful inner self, he, the wise one, attained the state of Praayopagama, and, free from anxiety, he resided in the Kshiravana, absorbed in the meditation of the Dharma. || 65 ||
Kamatha, a former sinner, who had fallen into hell, became a lion in that forest and seized the throat of the Muni. || 67 ||
He endured this attack of the lion, and, possessing the wealth of the fourfold worship, he became an Indra in the Achyuta heaven, in the chariot of the life-giving one. || 68 ||
There, he had a lifespan of twenty oceans, a body three and a half cubits tall, a white Leshya, he breathed after ten months, and he consumed mental ambrosia after twenty thousand years. He had mental sexual intercourse with women, his knowledge of perception extended to the fifth earth, and his radiance, power, and strength extended that far. All the gods, such as Samanika, worshipped him, and he was a mine of happiness, produced by many goddesses who granted wishes. Thus, he enjoyed all worldly pleasures...