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## The Twelfth Chapter
The earth is shining as if it is holding a great treasure. || 252 ||
O Devi! Look at this stream of jewels, adorned with the rays of various gems. It seems to me that this stream of jewels, by its deception, is the Lakshmi of heaven, coming to worship you. || 253 ||
O Mother! This shower of jewels, blessed by the gods, filling the sky, extremely beautiful, destroying the poverty of beings, and falling from the sky with humility, is for your joy. [This is an Ardhabhram sloka - the third and fourth lines of this sloka have come in the first and second lines.] || 254 ||
Knowing these difficult questions asked by the goddesses, especially, the pregnant Marudevi resided happily for a long time. || 255 ||
By nature, she was content, and when she realized that she was carrying a Tirthankara son, a form of knowledge and supreme light, in her womb, she was even more pleased. || 256 ||
She was holding the extremely radiant light within her womb, and therefore, she had attained the extreme beauty of the east, which holds the rays of the sun. || 257 ||
The Marudevi, with lotus-like eyes, who has been fully affected by the vast lamp in the form of a stream of jewels, which has rejected all other lights, shone like a treasure-filled land. || 258 ||