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The Guru was greeted with a bow and the word "Tha" (meaning "stay"). The beautiful Kumudini, representing love, was bathed by the glorious Shreyans, who is like a lotus in the world of suffering. The sages, like the sun, who destroy the afflictions of birth, old age, and death, and nourish the world with their blessings, thought to themselves: "The body is sustained by food, and from the body comes the practice of austerities, the worship of the feet, and the offering of water." The revered Rishabha, beloved by Indra, Chandra, and the Nagas, was seated on a high throne. Through austerities, heat is overcome, and through forgiveness, sin is destroyed. When sin is destroyed, great knowledge, the knowledge of the Self, arises. The water flows like leaping snowflakes, adorned with the humming of bees, the red of vermilion, and the fragrance of Mandara flowers. From this arises the imperishable supreme bliss, and the monk attains liberation. They offered fragrant Akshata, lamps, incense, Karamar Madalingas, and garlands, mangoes, Jambus, Jambeers, leaves, and fragrant sandalwood.
Thinking in this way, they, purified by their austerities, stayed there. And by the power of their merit, they worshipped the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord with fruits, camphor, and anklets, which were like the chains of Cupid, who had been released from his bow by the power of the ascetics. Shreyans obtained them. ||9||
Then, with heartfelt reverence, they bowed down. The arrow of Cupid, which had been released to disrupt the austerities of the ascetics, was not taken back by Cupid. The sugarcane juice, like a fault, was sprinkled from a golden pot. The Kuru dynasty, white like glory and moonlight, was extinguished by the fire of austerity, which brought peace. Who knows the unwavering austerities of past lives? Who knows where the Lord of the Universe resides?