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In the Uttarapurana of the Mahapurana, Umā, the consort of the Lord, praised and worshipped him. Even sinful beings are pleased by the clear display of heroic deeds.
Once, the daughter of King Chetaka, named Candanā, was engrossed in forest play. Seeing her, a certain Vidyādhara, afflicted by the arrows of Kāma, somehow managed to take her away. Later, fearing his own wife, he abandoned that maiden in the great forest.
A certain forest-dweller, seeing her there, handed her over to the merchant Vṛṣabhadatta out of a desire for wealth. The merchant's wife, named Subhadrā, became suspicious that her husband might have a relationship with her. Filled with anger, she always kept Candanā bound with a chain, feeding her rice cooked with millet, mixed with mud in a clay pot.
One day, the great Arhat Mahāvīra, while wandering for alms, entered the city of Kauśāmbī. Seeing him enter the city, Candanā went forward to meet him. At that moment, all her chains broke, her long, dark, curling hair became agitated like a swarm of bees, the garland of Mallikā flowers fell from her, her ornaments and clothes became beautiful, and she became endowed with the merit of nine types of piety, bowing down with devotion. The wise woman, with proper respect, offered food to the Mahāvīra, and as a result, five wonders occurred, and she was reunited with her kinsmen.
Meanwhile, the Blessed Lord Vardhamāna also spent twelve years in the state of concealment. One day, he was seated in the meditation posture on a magnificent slab of jewels, under a Sāla tree, on the banks of the Ṛjukūlā river, in the delightful forest near the Jambhīka village. On the tenth day of the bright half of the month of Vaiśākha, in the afternoon, when the moon entered the space between Hasta and Uttarā Phālgunī, he ascended the Kṣapaka series, purified by the bright meditation.