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CHAPTER TWELVE devoted to them for that reason. The god Rāma executed his brother's order in this way in Bharata and went back to Brahmaloka, much depressed at his brother's pain.
And now Jarā's son went to the Pāņdavas, told them about the burning of Dvārakā, et cetera and delivered the kaustubha. At once plunged into grief, weeping, they held Kệşņa's funeral rites for a year, like brothers. Knowing that they wished to become mendicants, Śri Nemi sent Muni Dharmaghoșa, who had four kinds of knowledge, with five hundred munis. After installing Jāreya on the throne, they, accompanied by Draupadi and others, became mendicants at the sage's side and practiced penance together with special vows.303 Bhima made a vow, “I shall accept food (only) offered on the point of a lance." But it (his vow) was completed in six months. Knowing the twelve angas, wandering over the earth gradually, eager to bow to Nemi, the five Pāņdavas set forth.
Emancipation of Neminātha (96–125) And now, after the Supreme Lord had wandered in Madhyadeśa, et cetera, the Lord wandered in cities Rājapura, et cetera in the north. He went to Mt. Hrimat and, wandering in many Mleccha countries, enlightened kings, ministers, et cetera. After he had wandered among āryas and non-āryas, the Lord went again to Hrīmat. Then he wandered in the Kirāta-countries, destroying the delusion of all the people. After coming down Mt. Hrimat, he wandered in the Deccan, awakening, like the sun, many bhavya-lotuses..
From the time of his omniscience, as the Lord wandered, there were eighteen thousand noble ascetics, forty thousand intelligent female ascetics, four hundred who knew the fourteen pūrvas, fifteen hundred who had clairvoyance, the same number who had the art of transformation, and the same number of omniscients, one thousand sādhus with mindreading knowledge, eight hundred ascetics with the art of
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