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TENTH INCARNATION AS MEGHARATHA
Then one day Ghanaratha, though self-enlightened, was enlightened by the Lokāntika-gods who came and said, "Found a congregation." After he had installed Megharatha as King and Drdharatha as yuvaraj, and had given gifts for a year, Ghanaratha took initiation. When his omniscience had arisen, enlightening souls capable of emancipation, Tirthankara Ghanaratha wandered over the earth.
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Story of Sinharatha (192-252)
The footstool of his lotus-feet rubbed by the crowns of throngs of kings, King Megharatha ruled over the earth, with Drdharatha. One day King Megharatha himself went to the garden Devaramaņa at the people's request with the intention of amusing himself. Under an aśoka there he and his wife Priyamitrā began to have a harmonious concert performed. Just then Bhutas by the thousand appeared before the king with the wish to perform an unprecedented concert. Some with very large bellies resembled Lambodara; 336 some with very lean ones looked as if they supported the lower regions; 887 others with rough feet hanging down looked as if they were mounted on palm-trees; others with long arms looked like trees with pythons; some were ornamented with snakes and some with ichneumons; some were dressed in leopardskins and some in tiger-skins; some were smeared with ashes and some with red ointment; some had wreaths of owls and some of vultures; some were garlanded with moles and some with lizards; some wore garlands of skulls and some carried skeletons. Some gave bursts of laughter and some raised a tumult; some neighed and others trumpeted; some gave slaps with their hands and some clapped their hands; some made musical instruments from their faces and others of their arm-pits. Splitting the earth,
888 196. Ganesa.
337 196. Their bellies were so emaciated that they were sunken like the hells.
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