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JUNE, 2016
PRABUDHH JEEVAN
PAGE No. 43
The 12th Chakravarti Brahmadatta - By Dr. Renuka Porwal, Mob.: 098218 77327
"Papa, Who is Brahmadatta in our
Jain History?" "The 12th Chakravarti Raja was
brahmadatta my son.
Once the King of Varanasi caught his chief minister Namuchi, with his queen and ordered a Chandal to kill him. Namuchi requested him not to kill, in return he could teach music to his two children Chitra and Sambhuti.
Both children became famous by their musical performances. Out of jealousy, Namuchi declared to everyone about
their Chandal caste. Shamed, they decided to end their lives. A Jaina monk saved them and they became sadhus.
Both performed severe austerity, where Sambhuti's tapa resulted in auspicious karma of becoming Chakravarti. Once while adoration, a women's hair touched Sambhuti's feet. Muni Sambhuti felt that in his next birth, he also should have beautiful wives.
In his next birth, he was born as Prince Brahmadatta at Kampilyapur. Later on he became a Chakravarti king. Once due to a dispute, a revengeful friend blinded him by throwing an arrow.
The king took revenge by blinding his friend's family members and his caste people. Every day the clever chief minister presented a plate full of fruits similar to eyes. Being blind, King Brahmadatta couldn't realise the difference between eyes and the sticky round fruits. Thus he died in RAUDRADHYANA and went to seventh hell after death.
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