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SUMATINĀTHACARITRA
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reading knowledge, thirteen thousand omniscient, eighteen thousand four hundred who had vaikriyalabdhi, ten thousand four hundred and fifty disputants, two hundred and eighty-one thousand laymen, and five hundred and sixteen thousand laywomen formed the retinue of Lord Sumati, who was endowed with the thirty-four supernatural qualities, as he wandered over the earth.
His mokșa (257-260) From the time of his omniscience, Lord Sumati wandered for a lac of pūrvas less twelve angas and twenty years. Knowing that it was time for his mokşa, the Lord went to Mt. Sammeta and together with a thousand munis observed a fast. At the end of a month the Lord of the World, his karma prolonging existence being destroyed, the four infinities having been acquired, practiced śailesi-dhyāna. On the ninth day of the white half of Caitra, the moon being in conjunction with Punarvasu, the Master and the munis gained an imperishable abode.
The Lord spent ten lacs of pūrvas as prince; twentynine lacs of pūrvas and twelve angas as king ; a lac of pūrvas less twelve angas in the vow. So Lord Sumati's age was forty lacs of purvas. Sumati Svāmin's nirvāņa was nine lacs of crores of sāgaras after Abhinandana's nirvāņa.
The Indras performed the funeral rites and cremation of the Lord and the thousand munis properly. They made a nirvāņa-festival in Nandīśvara and went home, each to his own world.
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