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royal happiness for a long time he renounced the throne and accepted renunciation. Then, by means of practising austere penances, he destroyed all kinds of his Karmans, GhanaGhatiya as well as Aghatiya, in this very life, and attained Liberation, in the end. Soon after this, queen Vapra, wife of king Vijaya of Raja Griha, gave birth to Jaya Sena who assumed the title of Emperor' after-wards. He too enjoyed all the pleasures becoming a king, accepted renunciation and then attained Spiritual Bliss in this very life by breaking loose of the karmic bondage.
The twenty second Tirthankara Shri Arishta Nemi Nathaji was born in Sauripura on the fifth New Moon day of Shravana five lacs of years after the twenty first Tirthankara's leaving this world for Liberation. His father and mother were king Samudra-Vijaya and queen Shiva Rani respectively. He enjoyed his worldly life for three hundred years only. At the time of his marriage he realised that his chief welfare lay only in giving protection to the dumb creatures, and after perceiving the unreality and transitori. ness of this world with his own eyes, he accepted renunciation in his own royal orchard on the sixth New Moon day of Shravana. On the New Moon day of Ashwina, that is fiftyfour days after his renunciation, he perceived quite vividly the Atman (Spirit) within him and became omniscient. He, then, destroyed all his karmans by practising penances for seven hundred years and in the end attained Liberation on the eighth New Moon day of Ashadha.
Thousands of years passed after the eleventh Chakravartin Maharaja Jaya Sena's ascending to the position of Nirvana (Salvation ) before a king named Yadu was born in
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