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There are eighteen faults, nineteen meditations, twenty-two terrifying councils... The Tirthankara, the Lord, is twenty-four. The devotee, Bharata, dreamt that Mount Sumeru, whose peak was broken by a boar's tusk, was rolling on the earth. The feelings of the Muni are twenty-five; the divisions of the earth are twenty-six; the qualities that distinguish the Yati are twenty-seven. In the morning, Bharata told this to his family. The benevolent priest, with twenty-seven eyes, falling on the necklace of his chest, said that there are twenty-eight divisions of the Achar Kalpa and twenty-nine of the Ardha Sutras. He described the dream, saying that there are thirty divisions of the temple in the form of a jewel, with a stream of tears flowing down. They have been destroyed by the night-walker in the form of thirst.
Falling into the mouth of the great serpent of time, the fourteen, with hair twisted and contracted like leaves, who have been preaching for less than a thousand years, have spoken of the thirty-one passions of karma, and the days remaining. Then, after wandering on the earth for a hundred thousand years, the wise-eyed Rishabhanatha reached Mount Kailash. Thirty-two teachings for the holy Munis. ||17||
Ascending the famous peak of Siddha, sweet with the joy of the flowers of the forest, the Jinadhipati Rishabha, who destroys hatred and anger, sat down with ten thousand great Munis, binding the day's seat, asking the water, land, sky, the roots of the underworld, and the inside of the three worlds, both gross and subtle, of the full moon. ||18|| The Adijin told everything to Bharateshwara. After paying homage to the Guru and condemning evil sin, Bharata went to his city and entered his house. Knowing the time of his father's renunciation of the world, while sleeping at night, at the feet of the Jinavar's lotus feet,
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