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Mahapuraana, Uttara Puraana
Knowing the true nature of good and bad, Padmaabha gave the sovereignty of external wealth to Suvarnaabha. [158]
Along with many kings, he took initiation and practiced the four types of well-known means of liberation. [159]
He became a Tirthankara, contemplating the sixteen causes - the thoughts, and became a master of the eleven angas, thus binding the karma of a Tirthankara. [160]
He performed difficult austerities like the lion's play, which ignorant beings cannot perform, and at the end of his life, he shed his body after attaining Samadhi. [161]
He became Ahamindra, the possessor of thirty-three sagara lifespan in the Vaidyuta Vimāna. [162]
The characteristics of his body, like the leshya, were as described before. He enjoyed divine happiness. [162]
After that, when six months of his lifespan remained, there was a city called Chandrapura in the Bharat Kshetra of this Jambudvipa. [163]
In that city, a king named Mahaseana, belonging to the Ikshvaku dynasty and the Kashyapa gotra, ruled with extraordinary splendor. [163]
His queen was named Lakshmana. Lakshmana received a stream of jewels showered by the gods in her own house. [164]
She was surrounded by the goddesses Shri, Hri, etc. The queen, who enjoyed the pleasures of divine garments, garlands, ointments, and beds, was pleased after seeing sixteen dreams on the fifth day of the dark fortnight of Chaitra. [165]
At sunrise, she got up, adorned herself with beautiful clothes and ornaments, and with a happy face, told her husband, who was sitting on the throne, about all her dreams. [166]
The king Mahaseana, knowing the fruits of those dreams through his knowledge of the past, present, and future, explained them separately to the queen, who was very happy to hear them. [168]
The goddesses Shri, Hri, Dhriti, etc. constantly increased her beauty, modesty, patience, fame, intelligence, and good fortune. [169]
After many days, on the eleventh day of the dark fortnight of Pausha, she gave birth to the son of Ahamindra, who was worshipped by the gods, possessed inconceivable radiance, and was endowed with the three knowledges, in the Shakrayoga. [170]
At that very moment, Indra came and placed the said Jina-child on the throne situated on the peak of Mount Meru, bathed him with the water of the Kshirasagara, adorned him with all kinds of ornaments, put the necklace of the kingdom of the three worlds around his neck, and then happily showered him with thousands of