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CHAPTER SEVEN
restrained him forcibly and mounted him. For he was lord. Then he made two heads and Väsava became twofold, so there were as many Väsavas as there were heads. Running away again, jealous from the former birth, he was quickly made submissive by Vajrin striking him with the thunderbolt.
The congregation (237–242) Seven and a half thousand years, less eleven months, passed as Suvrata Svāmin wandered over the earth after his omniscience. Thirty thousand noble ascetics, fifty thousand nuns practicing penance, five hundred wise men who knew the fourteen Pūrvas, eighteen hundred endowed with clairvoyance, fifteen hundred who had mind-reading knowledge, eighteen hundred who were omniscient, two thousand who had the art of transformation, twelve hundred disputants, one hundred and seventy-two thousand laymen, three hundred and fifty thousand laywomen were the Lord's retinue as he wandered.
His emancipation (243-247) At the time of nirväņa Śrī Munisuvrata went to Sammeta and commenced a fast with a thousand munis, At the end of a month on the ninth day of the dark half of Jyeștha, (the moon being) in the constellation Śravaņa, the Master attained emancipation with the munis. Seventy-five hundred years as prince and in the vows each, fifteen thousand in the kingdom-so Lord Suvrata was thirty thousand years old. The emancipation of Sri Munisuvrata took place fifty-four lacs of years after the emancipation of Sri Malli Svāmin. The Indras and the gods, very reverential, came and celebrated properly the great emancipation-festival of Munisuvrata who had gone to an eternal abode with the munis.
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