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Rşabhadeva entered Bāhubalī's kingdom near Takşaśilä. He stayed there in a garden in meditation whole night but at the approach of down he went away. Unfortunately Bāhubali could not meet him. Bāhubalī put over the Lord's footstep a jeweled Dharmacakra like complete disc of the sun. He observed the ceremony of Aştâhnika, thus Takşaśilā and Hastinapur became a sacred place.
Lord Rşabhadeva keeping himself separate from everybody without any hesitation and weakness traveled all the Aryan and nonAryan countries. He accepted different types of Abhigrahato continue observing the vow of silence. He wandered for a thousand years as easily a day in the countries of Yavanas, Domba and Mlecchas making them well-disposed to others just from the sight of him, untouched, unmoved by disturbances, enduring trials or upasargas and Parişahas.
Rşabhadeva gradually proceeded further. He went to the township Purimatāla, the chief suburb of the city of Ayodhya. He entered the garden Sakatamukha35. After fasting four days, standing in meditation under a banyan tree he attained seventh guṇasthāna called apramatta. After that he attained another gunasthāna named Apūrvakaraņa. Then he attained the first stage of sukladhyāna. After that he attained ninth gunasthāna named Anivítti. Then he attained respective stages like Sūkşmasamparāya, Kșiņnakasāya, Upaśāntakaṣāya. He attained the second stage of Sukladhyāna. Gradually his karmas like five Jñānāvaraniya, four Daršanāvaraniya and five Antarāya being destroyed, he attained twelfth guṇasthāna named Kșīņamoha. Thus after one thousand year (999 years 11 months and 2 days) passed on the eleventh half of Phālguna, the moon being in conjunction with Uttarāṣādhā, at dawn the Rşabhadeva' omniscience became manifest36. By the power of Kevala-jñāna he was capable of knowing about three worlds. In the morning Lord went to enter samavasaraņa. It was a huge congregation. Surrounded by the crores of four classes of gods, he set out at daybreak to reach the samavasarana. Rşabhadeva's hypnotic thought current made kings
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