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The word "Jiva" refers to an external object, as it is a noun. Just like the words "worldly pot", "delusion", "opinion", and "reason", all nouns are related to a specific object.
The Muni explained the nature of the Jiva using these arguments. Hearing this, both scholars abandoned their pride and bowed to the Muni.
Both scholars, in the presence of the same Muni, performed intense austerities and observed the Sudarshan and Achamlavardhan vows. They also received the boon of attaining the Narayana state. At the end of their lifespan, both left their bodies and became the best of gods, Indra and Pratindra, in the Maha Shukra heaven, residing in a space equivalent to sixteen oceans. They were immersed in happiness and experienced the bliss of heavenly fortune.
At the end of their lifespan, both departed from there and were born as sons of King Dharmajay and Queen Yashovati in the city of Pundarikin in the Pushkalavati country, in the eastern part of the Videha region, which is part of the western region of the Dhataki Khand island. They were born as Balabhadra and Narayana, who were destined to attain those states. Now, the order of their birth was reversed. Balabhadra was destined to ascend, and Narayana was destined to descend. The elder son was named Mahabal, and the younger was named Atibal.
At the end of his reign, when Narayana (Atibal) reached the end of his lifespan, Mahabal performed intense austerities after taking initiation from the Muni Samadhi Gupta. At the end of his lifespan, he left his body and became Indra in the fourteenth heaven called Pranat.
There, he enjoyed the fortune of the gods for twenty oceans. At the end of his lifespan, he departed from there and was born as the son of Queen Vasundhara, the wife of King Maha Sen, the ruler of the city of Prabhakari in the Vatsakavati country, in the eastern part of the Videha region, which is part of the western region of the Dhataki Khand island. He was born as Jayasen, who brought joy to all the people like the moon.
He became a Chakravarti, and...