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not mentioned as his daughters. Indeed, it is mentioned that Rsabha taught lehāio......kalāo but again no mention is made of Brahmi and Sundari. Further, it is mentioned that before renunciation, Rsabha enthroned his hundred sons, but here also not a single name of his so is given. It should also be noted that Marici the grandson of Rsabha is nowhere mentioned in the text. Moreover, while describing the digvijaya of Bharata, oppostion by Avada Cilaya of Northern half of Bharata country is only mentioned and there is no mention of his encounter with Bahubali. So it was for the later authors to suggest the relation of Rsabha with Bharata, Bahubali, Brahmi, Sundari, Marici and others and create a new version of the story of Rsabha and Bharata.
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The story of Bharata and Bahubali is generally the same in Paumacariyam and in the Āvašyaka Niryukti.
Bahubali is supposed to be the first amongst the Kamadevas of this Avasarpiņi age. According to the author of the Adipurāņa, he should be greenish in complexion. 10 The Harivamsa calls him śyāmamūrtih, and compares him with marakatācala, rock of emerald. 11
All the images known as Gommatesvara or Gomatesvara represent none else but Bahubali who was also called Bhujabali, Dorbali, or Kukkutesvara. 12 It can not be said how the statues of Bahubali came to be known as Gommatesvara but it seems that the Sravana Belgola colossus was the first to be famous by that name. But Bahubali is not addressed as Gommata or Gommatesvara in early Jaina literature of either sect. The Belgola image was erected by Camundaraya. A. N. Upadhye has shown that Camundaraya had another name Gommata and was also called Gommataraya. This is taken to explain how the image became famous as Gommatesvara, the lord of Gommata alias Camundaraya.
her explanation, offered by M. Govinda Pai, is note-worthy. Bahubali was extremely beautiful and was varily a Kamadeva according to Jaina traditions. In Kannada language, according to Pai, Gammata=Manmatha signifies Kamadeva.13
10 Adipurana, 35, v. 53. 11 Harivamsa, 11.76-102, pp. 212 ff. 12 Upadhye, A. N., in Bharatiya Vidya, II, no. 1, p. 48 18 Pai, M. Govinda, 'Sri Bahubali-ki Murti Gommat knyo kahalata Hai?' (in Hindi),
Jaina Siddhanta Bhaskara, vol IV. No. 2, pp. 102,109. For other discussions on the problem, see, Mitra, K.P., in Jaina Antiquary, vol. VI. no. 1., pp. 26-34 ; Shastri H.A. Santiraja, in Jaina Siddhanta Bhaskrra, vol. VII, no. 1, p. 51; Upadhye, A.N. in IHQ. XVI, no. 2 ; Pai, M. Govinda, in IHQ., IV. no. 2, vol. II (Revised ed.), Introduction, pp. 10-18.
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