Part 5: Life as Cakravartin

Then Maghavan, resplendent with the full equipment of a Cakravartin, went to Śrāvastī, like Maghavan (Indra) to Amarāvatī. There the coronation of Maghavan, whose success was complete, as a Cakravartin was made fittingly by gods and kings. Though crowned as Cakravartin, constantly attended by thirty-two thousand crowned kings, attended by sixteen thousand gods, all his wishes fulfilled by nine treasures, constantly adorned by wreaths of the blue lotuses of the eyes of the sixty-four thousand women of his household, and in other circumstances advantageous for negligence, still he did not become negligent at all in his ancestral layman’s duties. He furnished various and numerous shrines, like palaces of the gods, which had statues of the Jinas with gold and jewels. Just as he alone was lord of the earth, so of him the Arhat, god, good sadhu, teacher, and dharma consisting of compassion were the lords. His senses always restrained, he never abandoned control in pūjās in the shrines, like kings in their pūjās to him.