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his karma destroyed. Giri put his son Mitragiri on the throne, became a mendicant, and went to heaven. So in succession there were numberless kings in the Harivansa. Some reached emancipation and some heaven as a result of penance.
His parents (111-123) Now in this same Bharatakşetra there is a city Rājagpha, the ornament of Magadha, like a svastika of the earth. There heaps of pearls from necklaces broken by amorousness of young people are swept up by the sweepers in each house at dawn. In every house there are horses; in every house charity ; in every house picture galleries, in every house theaters. Like a pond for the marālas, like a garland of flowers for the bees, there was always service for the noble munis also.
Its king was Sumitra, like a spotless pearl of the Harivansa, a sun in dazzling brilliance. The punisher of the wicked, the husband of the Śrīs of victory, the priest of his family, the guide of all kings, he bore the weight of the earth like a ninth elephant of the quarters, like an eighth mountain-range, like a second serpent Seșa. Whatever virtues there are-generosity, firmness, dignity, etc., they were visible in him like signs at the coming of the Jina. Padmāyati was his wife, like the goddess Padmā of Hari, by whom the earth was purified. The king's glory was adorned by her, the source of joy for the eyes of all the world, like the sky by a digit of the moon. By her own fragrant virtues, good conduct, et cetera, she perfumed the king's heart, like perfuming a cloth with fragrant powder. Even Bịhaspati could not enumerate her collection of virtues like the groups of stars in the sky. Sumitra, lord of the earth, enjoyed pleasures with her, who was like the earth that had become alive, from affection.
His birth (124-130) Now the god Suraśrestha, immersed in an ocean of bliss, completed his life in Prāṇata. He fell and descended
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