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of fourfold food according to rule. At the end of a month, when the moon was in conjunction with the constellation Śravana, having acquired the four infinities, 419 he went to the region of the siddhas. Bharata passed seventy-seven lacs of purvas as prince while the Lord was ruling the earth, and one thousand years as king, while the Blessed One was an ordinary ascetic. The son of Rṣabha passed six lacs of purvas less a thousand years as Cakravatin. When omniscience became manifest, he passed a lac of purvas, like the sun a day, wandering with the desire to benefit every one. After living for eighty-four lacs of purvas as described, Bharata, noble, went to mokşa. Sakra and the gods, whose joy bloomed out instantly like the kandala, made his mokşa-festival.
In this book are described the former births of the Master, the origin of the patriarchs, the birth of the Lord, and the teaching of the customs of marriage, etc., the sovereignty, vow, and omniscience of the Lord; also the Cakravartinship of Bharata and the attainment of mokşa by the Lord and Cakrin successively. May it produce all kinds of pleasure 20 for you.
419 750. Infinite perception, knowledge, power, and blissanantacatuṣṭaya.
420 756. Parvāņi would not ordinarily be used in this connection. It must be used because of the parvani in the same line.
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