________________
166
CHAPTER SIX
pleasure. He had the eastern district of the Gangā conquered by the general. So he conquered six-part Bhārata.
Life as cakravartin (45-53) Then Maghavan, resplendent with the full equipment of a cakravartin, went to Srāvasti, like Maghavan (Indra) to Amarāvati. There the coronation of Maghavan, whose success was complete, as a cakravartin was made fittingly by gods and kings. Though crowned as cakravartin, constantly attended by thirty-two thousand crowned kings, attended by sixteen thousand gods, all his wishes fulfilled by nine treasures, constantly adorned by wreaths of the blue lotuses of the eyes of the sixty-four thousand women of his household, and in other circumstances advantageous for negligence, still he did not become negligent at all in his ancestral layman's duties. He furnished various and numerous shrines, like palaces of the gods, which had statues of the Jinas with gold and jewels. Just as he alone was lord of the earth, so of him the Arhat, god, good sadhu, teacher, and dharma consisting of compassion were the lords. His senses always restrained, he never abandoned control in pūjās in the shrines, like kings in their pūjās to him.
His death (54-57) After passing his life as a layman without self-control, 228 he adopted mendicancy fittingly at the time of death. He lived twenty-five thousand years as prince, twenty-five thousand as governor, ten thousand in the expedition of conquest, three hundred and ninety thousand as cakravartin and fifty thousand in the vow. When he had lived for five hundred thousand years from birth, pure-minded, recalling the five Paramesthins, he died, and became a chief-god, with power equal to Indra's, 224 in Sanatkumāra.
228 54. I.e., technically. A layman does not have virati. 224 57. I.e., he became a Sāmānika. See Kirfel, s.v.
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
