Disclaimer: This translation does not guarantee complete accuracy, please confirm with the original page text.
368
In the Harivamsha Purana, Surya Prabha, having fallen from Jambudvipa, was born as the son of Atibala, the king of Dharanitilaka, a city in the southern range of the Vaibharya mountains, to his queen, Mahadevi Shridhara, who was blessed with auspicious signs. ||7|| Shridhara was given to Sudarshan, the king of Alakapuri, and from him, Yashodhara was born, the mistress of the Vaidurya Prabha Vimana. ||79|| Yashodhara was given to Prabhakarapuri, the king of the northern range, Surya Avarta, and from him, Shridhara, the immortal, was born. ||80|| After giving his kingdom to his son Rashmivega, Surya Avarta went to Muni Chandra to practice austerities for liberation. ||81|| Shridhara and Yashodhara, both pure in their right faith, took initiation from a virtuous Aryika. ||82|| Rashmivega, desiring to pay homage, went to Siddhakoota, where he heard the Dharma from Harichandra Muni and became a Muni. ||83|| One day, Mahamuni Rashmivega was engaged in his studies in a cave called Kanchana, when the Aryikas Shridhara and Yashodhara came to pay their respects. ||84|| The soul of Shri Bhooti, the priest, who had been a Naraka in the Balukaprabha earth, was released after a long time and, after wandering in the world, became a serpent in the same cave. ||85|| Seeing the calamity, Muni Rashmivega entered the state of Kayotsarga, and both the Aryikas also took a cautious vow of renunciation. The serpent, with its large belly, swallowed all three. ||86|| Rashmivega died and became the great-minded Arka Prabha Deva in the Kapishta heaven, and both the Aryikas also became Devas in the Ruchak Vimana of the same heaven. ||87|| The great enemy, the serpent, died, his heart corrupted by the evil of fierce meditation, and was born in the fourth earth, Pankaprabha, stained with the mud of sin. ||88|| The soul of Singhchandra, the master of the Pritikar Vimana, fell from there and was born as Chakraayudha, the son of Aparajit, the king of Chakrapur, and his queen Sundari. Chakraayudha's wife was Chitramala, and from her, Vajrayudha was born, the son of Muni Rashmivega (the husband of Queen Ramadatta, the son of King Singh Sen). ||10||