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“Prince! You ride on elephants and horses... You play... You fight... and enjoy... What do you know about religion? We saints only know what religion is.”
Pārshwakumār immediately ordered servants and took out burning piece of wood from fire. Carefully he cut the wood and shattered big snake came out.
Pārshwakumār told 'Navkār' to that snake and consoled it. It got peaceful death and reborn as Nāgrāj Dharanendra deity. All acclaimed Pārshwakumār and disregarded Kamath. Kamath reviled Pārshwakumār and went somewhere else. He started various types of penances and died. In the next birth he became deity named Meghmāli at Meghkumār heaven (a type of Bhavanpati deities' heaven).
Pārshwakumār returned to palace along with family. One day, Pārshwakumār went to art gallery. He saw the pictures of Nemikumār's marriage. He also saw the pictures showing how renunciatory Nemikumār forsook Rājimati.
Renunciatory Pārshwakumār became more renunciatory and now he was determined. Meanwhile, Lokāntik deities known that God's initiation time is coming soon and hence, they requested God to establish sacrament and God started 'Varsidān'.
Sitting in 'Vishālā' palanquin God came along with thousands of deities and people to Ashrampad garden from Banāras in Anurādhā constellation, on eleventh day of dark half of Paush
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