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After listening to this he relinquished everything and pursued initiation along with Yashomati and Matiprabh. He did Vishasthānak penance and constituted Tirthankar Nāmkarma. After peaceful death both became deities in the eighth birth at the Anuttar plane of Aparājeet heaven. Both were friends in heaven also.
BIRTH -9
One soul... Many bodies... Dhankumār, Saudharmendra heaven, Vidyādhar Chitragati, Māhendra heaven, King Aparājeet, Āran heaven, Shankhkumār, Aparājeet Anuttar plane and so on... that meritorious soul came to the womb of queen Shivādevi. She was the wife of King Samudravijay; ruling over Sauryapuri city of northern Bharatkshetra. He was at the prime position among all great ten Yādavs of his family. After completing life of thirty three sāgaropam in the heaven that soul came to embryo with fourteen great dreams in Chitrā constellation, on twelfth day of dark half of Kārtik (Ashwin) month.
Dream characteristics reader explained the results of all fourteen dreams. People all over the town became joyful. After completion of pregnancy period Shivādevi delivered a dark coloured baby boy in Chitrā constellation, on fifth day of bright half of Shrāvaņ month. The infant had a blot of sea shell.
King Samudravijay, Meritorious Baldev, Balbhadraji, Vāsudev Krishna etc. celebrated birth ceremony of brilliant new born baby.
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