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CHAPTER VI
FAMILY LIFE हिमाह्वयन्तु यद्वर्षे नाभे रासीन्महात्मनः । तस्यर्षभोऽभवत्पुत्रो मरुदेव्या महायु ति
ऋषभाद्भरतो जज्ञे वीरः पुत्रशताग्रजः।। [Tr. In the laud called Hima Risabha of great brilliance was born to the Great Nābhi from Maru Devi. To Rişabha was born Bharata, the eldest of a hundred sons, and a great hero. ] The Kurma Purāņa (Hindu), I.XI, 37-38.
Srimati Yaśasvati Devi was the senior queen of Rişabha Devaji. One night she conceived and saw four wonderful dreams. She first of all saw the enormous Mountain Meru swallow up the whole world ; then she saw the Sun and the Moon and the Mountain named ; thereafter, a Lake dotted with white swans, and last of all an Ocean agitated with waves. These were interpreted for her by her Husband the next day, and meant that her son would be the lord of the whole world, that he would be surrounded by the greatest glory and lordly pomp, that he would be endowed with all
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