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He became detached after listening to a discourse of Sudharma Swami when he was sixteen years old. When he approached his parents to seek permission for getting initiated they tried to dissuade him but he remained firm on his resolve. As a last resort his mother requested him that if he fulfilled just one of her wishes, she will also get initiated with him. Jambu agreed with a condition that once her wish was fulfilled she would not create hurdles in his path.
According to their wish the parents arranged for Jambu's marriage with eight beautiful and virtuous girls. Although he married - due to intense pressure from his parents - during his first night he gave such a touching spiritual discourse to his eight wives that they became detached from all mundane activities.
A notorious thief, Prabhav, who had entered Jambu's house, also happened to listen to this discourse. This thief also got detached. Next morning Jambu took diksha (the process of getting initiated) from Sudharma Swami, who was in Rajagriha at that time, along with 527 persons including Prabhav and his fellow thieves (469 B.C.).
This initiation ceremony was attended by the Magadh king Kunik and his large council of ministers besides the prominent citizens of Rajagriha. For twelve years Jambu remained under tutelage of Sudharma Swami and acquired profound knowledge of all the canons. After Sudharma Swami became omniscient Jambu succeeded him as the Head of the Order. Jambu became omniscient in 20 A.N.M. (449 or 450 B.V.) and got nirvana in 64 A.N.M. (405 B.V., 462 B.C.). Jambu Swami is believed to be the last omniscient of this cycle of time.
Arya Prabhav Swami - Arya Prabhav Swami succeeded Jambu Swami as Head of the Order. He also was initiated by Sudharma Swami. He was a prince from the Vindhya area in western India, but as his father made the younger son the heir apparent, Prabhav left his kingdom and became a bandit. When he went to the house of Jambu with an intention to steal, he listened to the discourse of Jambu and had a change of heart. He then became an ascetic along with Jambu. He became the Head of the Order, Acharya, in the year 64 A.N.M. He had absorbed all the knowledge of the canons. He was the first Shrut Kevali in Mahavir's tradition. (Shrut Kevali is the person who has complete literal knowledge of all the Angas including the fourteen sublime ones.) He left his mundane body in the year 75 A.N.M. (395 B.V., 451 B.C.).
Arya Shayyambhav Swami - He was born in a Brahman family of Rajagriha belonging to Vatsa gotra. He was a profound scholar of the Vedas, but a conceited person. When among his disciples, Arya Prabhav did not find a capable and scholarly person suitable to take charge of the order; he looked around for someone from other schools. One day while he was busy in Yajna rituals Shayyambhav heard a comment from some shramans that no one present there had the knowledge of the fundamentals. This inspired the irked Shayyambhav to go to Arya Prabhav, the then head of the shramans, and find out if the shramans had the true knowledge of the fundamentals. Arya Prabhav gave him the knowledge of the fundamentals and made him a disciple. As Shayyambhav was already a brilliant scholar, Arya Prabhav imparted all the knowledge of the twelve Angas to him and made him the successor.
At the time of his renunciation, Shayyambhav was twenty eight years old and his wife was pregnant. Therefore the father and the son were not acquainted with each other. The desire to experience the love of his father grew with age within the son's mind. However, at last when child Manak came to Shayyambhav in search of Aagam- 44 - Nandi Sootra
10- Compiled by- Deepratnasagar
