Part 16: Padmaprabha’s mokṣa (emancipation)

The Supreme Lord, knowing that it was time for his mokṣa, went to Mt. Sammeta and fasted for a month. On the eleventh day of the black half of Mārgaśīrṣa, the moon being in Citrā, the Lord, of whom the four remaining karmas had been destroyed, possessing the four infinities of siddhas, went from the fourth meditation to the fourth object of men’s existence,^[1] together with eight hundred and three monks who had fasted.

As prince he spent seven and a half lacs of pūrvas plus sixteen aṅgas; in protection of the kingdom twenty-one and a half lacs of pūrvas; and in the vow a lac of pūrvas less sixteen aṅgas. So Lord Padmaprabha lived for thirty lacs of pūrvas. The nirvāṇa of Lord Padmaprabha was nine thousand crores of sāgaras after the nirvāṇa of Sumati Svāmin.

The sixty-four Indras came there and devotedly cremated the Lord’s body and those of the munis; and made a great nirvāṇa-kalyāṇa-festival.