Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 1

SR No.: 008001
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 650
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 15 MB

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words, bondage, &o. Räjā Risabha-deva had no restriction what 80-evor in teaching with a purity of heart, Graumar, Prosody, Story-telling, Composition of Poems, Astronomy, and other arts that he had acquired. He also taught the fixed rules of conduct in accordance with their respective functions,-the ways of respect ing elderly individuals, and the arrangement of the people into castes in accordance with their individual occupations. This science of political and social ethics promulgated by Rājā Risabha-dova is still prevalent during the present age as bis eternal monument even in the minds of those who are devoid of the knowledge of what is suitable, as well as, of what is otherwise.
Rajā Risabha deva, equipped with elephants, horses, and other parapbolia of royalty, and deciding the dubious questions of the populace, in relation to respective distinction in apartments of families, and in questions of disagreement on public welfare, passed his days, enjoying worldly pleasures with Sunandā gari and Sumangalā, gået. Sumangalā-devi gave birth to a twin Bbarat ca and Brāhmi arat and Sunandā gave birth to Bāhu bali पाहुबलि and Sundari सुंदरी.
In due course of time, Sumangalā gave birth to other fortynine male twins. Bharata and other princes, coming to their respeotive ages, became skilful in many arts.
Having thus taught the arts and the management of familymatters, leading the life of a house-holder for eighty three lao pūrvaus while preserving the ordinary customs of the people and seoing the people devoid of the practice of Dharma suitable for the Path of Moksa, and on seeing them falling into the mire of Samsāra, with an ever increasing sense of compassion in his heart, when the Sārasvata Lokāntika-devas came there on the quivering of their thrones in heaven and requested Rajā Risabha-deva to propel the wheel of Dharma, Bhagavān RiŞabha-deva becoming free from the desire of worldly enjoymonts called Bbarata and his other sons to his presence, and distributed his kingdom among his hundred sons.