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Cakravart Subh ma
The eighth cakravart of Bharata, emperor Subh ma, came in the intervening period between the Jain religion's 18 T rthamkara and seventh cakravart Lord Aran tha and the 19thT rthamkara, Lord Mallin tha.Subh ma was the son of the famous, mighty king of Hastin pura, K rtav rya Sahasr rjuna. His mother's name was Tr. We find the introduction to emperor Subh ma in crya SI mka's "Caupanna Mah puru a Cariyam.”
According to that:
In Bharata region of Jamb dy pa was a city named Hastin pura. Near that city in a vast forest was a hermitage of ascetics. The main ascetic of that hermitage was named Jama or Yama. One day, an orphan Brahmin boy, separated from his friends, wandering about lost his way, reached the hermitage. Ascetic Jama kept that boy with him. After sometime that boy became an ascetic and was named Agni. Later, with the name of the teacher added to his name, he became famous as Jamadagni. After severe penance Jamadagni began to be reckoned among the great sages.
One night when the great sage Jamadagni was deep in meditation under a tree in his hermitage, the gods with the aim of testing him, sat on that tree in the form of a male and female partridge. The female partridge asked the male one, "Will the ascetic doing penance on one leg under this tree be eligible for the joys of heaven on account of his penance”? The male partridge replied, "No." To this the female partridge asked, with surprise in her tone, “But why? If such a great ascetic cannot gain the joys of heaven then who else will?” The male partridge replied, “ ‘aputrasya gatirn sti’, according to this apt statement the one who does not have a son cannot gain salvation /liberation no matter how great an ascetic he may be. This ascetic has no son”.
Hearing the above conversation Jamadagni started thinking. He thought the two birds were right. Doing penance without a son is like chasing Mar cik in the form of a deer. Hence I shall first get married to a beautiful girl of good descent and try to beget a son. With this thought the next day Jamadagni left for Mithil with his staff and pitcher. Reaching Mithil he told the king, 'I want to get married, give me one of
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