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Although your wealth is fruitful, it is tainted by many thorns - misfortunes. Who, in their right mind, would touch a thorny vine with their hand? ||9||
We desire to bring under our control the thornless wealth of tapasya, therefore this worldly wealth is completely to be abandoned for us, like a cluster of poisonous thorns. ||19||
Please forgive me for this offense I have committed. I have fallen from humility, meaning I did not show you proper respect. I consider this my own fickleness. ||100||
Just as the roar of a cloud, emerging from the rain, brings joy to the hearts of those who are parched, so too did the words of the great king Bahubali, emerging from his mouth, bring some joy to the troubled heart of the Chakravarti Bharat. ||101||
"Alas, I have done a terrible deed!" Thus, the Chakravarti, blaming himself loudly, was greatly tormented by his own sinful karma. ||102||
Having used many forms of persuasion and supplication, the wise Bahubali, repeatedly pacifying the last of the Kulakaras, the great king Bharat, did not retreat from his resolve. This is fitting, for the steadfastness of the strong is indeed wondrous. ||103||
He entrusted the kingdom to his son, the mighty Mahabali, and himself, worshipping the feet of his Guru, took Jain initiation. ||104||
Embraced by the vine of initiation, having shed all possessions, he shone like a tree, withered by the shedding of its leaves. ||105||
Following the Guru's command, skilled in the study of scriptures and having adopted a single-minded focus, the self-controlled Bahubali observed the pratima yoga for a year, meaning he remained standing in one place, on one seat. ||106||
With praiseworthy vows, never eating, and with the area around him filled with forest vines, he was terrifying, emerging from the holes of termite mounds. ||107||
Surrounded on all sides by the leaping and jumping of hissing serpent young, whose fangs were visible, he shone, like a cluster of poisonous shoots. ||108||