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At that time a Devendra (king of gods) came there—“O mother! I Shakrendra, the overlord of Saudharma Dev Lok, pay my respect to you.” After that Shakrendra paid homage to the new born Tirthankar—“O savior of the three worlds! Please accept my homage. I want to perform your post-birth anointing.” With these words Shakrendra put the mother to a trans-like slumber and placed a realistic image of the child near the mother.
Shakrendra transformed himself into five bodies. One body picked the infant. Two bodies waved whisks on two flanks. One body raised an umbrella and one lead the group waving the Vajra (divine mace).
The group came to Meru mountain and regaining his original form Shakrendra sat down on a crystal rock with the infant in his lap. Many Indras (kings of gods) came from all directions and paid homage to Bhagavan. Ishanendra produced water from golden horns and anointed the child Tirthankar. Ten Vaimanik, twenty Bhuvan-pati, thirty two Vyantar and two Jyotishk kings of gods, adding up to 64 kings of gods, performed the post-birth anointing of Bhagavan with water from sixteen million urns.
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