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SIXTH INCARNATION AS APARĀJITA 247 smiled and said to the Pratyardhacakrin, “You are free, because you are Kanakaśrī's father. Go now, sir !"
Damitāri said to him: “Why are you armed with my weapon, villain, like a rich debtor with the money of the creditor ? Hurl the cakra! Hurl it! And hurl now your valor into the ocean of my strength, Anantavīrya, or turn into a clod.”
Anantavīrya, so addressed, resembling Antaka (Yama) angered, hurled the cakra, and cut off Damitāri's head, like a lotus. The gods, delighted at his strength, rained five-colored flowers above Anantavīrya, and said:
"All you Vidyadhara-kings, listen attentively. Anantavirya is Vişnu; and Aparăjita is Bala. Approach his feet; turn from the field of battle with one whose rising is to be worshipped, like the moon, and like the sun.”
Then all the Vidyādhara-kings went with bowed heads to Baladeva and Vāsudeva for asylum giving protection. Hari set out in a chariot for the capital, Subhā, with the Vidyadhara-kings, his elder brother, and his wife. As Hari went near Mt. Kanaka, the Vidyādharas said to him: "Do not show disrespect to the holy Arhats here. There are many shrines of the Jinas on Mt. Kanaka. After Your Honor has worshipped them properly, go from here."
Sārngabhst and his retinue got out of their chariots and worshipped the shrines which make the eyes cool. Looking at the mountain with curiosity, he saw Muni Kirtidhara at one side engaged in pratimā with a fast extending over a year. Hari rejoiced because he saw him, whose omniscience arose just at that time from the destruction of the ghātikarmas and for whom a festival was held by the gods. After they had circumambulated him three times, had paid homage to him, and had sat down with folded hands, Hari and his retinue listened to a sermon by him. At the end Kanakaśrī asked the muni, “Why did the killing of my father and separation from my relatives take place ?" The muni related:
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