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or not does not have any special meaning here. Marriage is not an obstruction to T rthamkara -hood of a T rthamkara.
Completing 18 lakh years, on the lok ntika gods' prayers, V sup jya gave charities for a year and thereafter with 600 other kings, took initiation with a one-day fast (called caturthabhakta) and on the dark half of the moon being in conjunction in the F Iguna month, under the constellation atabhi , renouncing all bad deeds, became a rama a. On the second day, at the home of king Sunanda he broke his first fast with rice pudding. The gods showered the five auspicious things to express the greatness of the giving/ charity (d na).
After taking initiation the Lord wandered as a mendicant for a month and in that same garden under the P al tree became meditative. In the second stage of deep meditation, destroying the four gh tikarmas, on the second day of the bright half of M gha month under the constellation
atabhi , he obtained pure knowledge after a day's fast. As a keval the Lord gave a sermon to the gods, demigods and men in a grand assembly, and explaining the ten-fold dharma including k nti etc, founded the four-fold creed and became T rthamkara of the period. While wandering when Lord V sup jya arrived at Dw rik , the second Vasudeva of the time, Dvip ha, hearing the news of his arrival, presented himself there and accepted the path of self-restraint hearing the detached speech. Baladeva Vijaya also accepted the spiritual path and in time became a monk and attained liberation.
This way, like Lord rey msan tha, Lord V sup jya also had a vast influence over the royalty of that time. One month less of 54 lakh years he wandered as a keval , preaching lakhs of people and in the end at Camp city, along with 600 monks, he observed a month-long fast and in the fourth stage of deep meditation, stopped all activities, breaking all karmas and attained enlightenment and nirva on the 14" day of the bright half of ādha under the constellation Uttar bh drapada.
His congregation had 66 ga as and Ga adharas, 6000 omniscient, 6100 telepaths,5400 clairvoyants, 1200 14-p rvadh rs, 10000 vaikriyalabdhidh rs, 4700 v ds, 72000 monks, 100000 female-monks, 215000 votaries (r vakas) and 436000 female-votaries.
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