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graiveyaka god, eighth as Suvar ab hu, ninth as a Prata god and tenth as P r van tha'.
Lord P r van tha accrued the T rthamkara n makarma in his eighth life as Suvar ab hu. A brief description of that birth is given here. Leaving the realm of gods Vajran bha's soul he was born as Suvar ab hu with all qualities of a cakravart to queen Sudar an , the wife of the king of east Videha, Kuli ab hu. When Suvar ab hu became a young man king Kuli ab hu got him married and crowning him king and himself renounced this world as a monk.
Once, Suvar ab hu left on his horse for a pleasure ride, and to enjoy nature. On the way, the horse started running in an uncontrollable manner and took him to a deep forest. When the horse stopped by a lake in the forest, the king got down and washing his face, drinking some water, tying up his horse to a tree, went to take a stroll in the forest. After going some distance he spotted a few young women playing in the garden by a hermitage. His eyes became fixed on a beautiful, charming woman and he kept staring at her without blinking his eyes. Bees began to hover over her face, on account of the sandal paste, on her forehead. While she tried to get rid of them, many more bees began to hover over her face. Troubled, she screamed. Then Suvar ab hu shooed away those bees with his cloth and rid the woman of her fear.
The women thanked Suvar ab hu and said, "She is princess Padm , the daughter of king Khecarendra. After the death of her father she has come here with her mother seeking protection at the hermitage of sage Glava. Yesterday the sage told her that she would get a suitable groom like Suvar ab hu. This has come true." When sage Glava heard about the arrival of Suvar ab hu in his hermitage he reached there, along with queen Ratn val and after extending due respects, got Padm married to him. After spending sometime there king Suvar ab hu returned to his kingdom. While enjoying his royal pleasures a cakra jewel appeared in his place. On that account, winning over six regions, he became a cakravart emperor.
Once at a garden in Purapura, the samava ara a of T rthamkara Jagann tha took place. Happily, Suvar ab hu took his family to pay obeisance to him. Suvar ab hu, greatly inspired thinking again and again of T rthamkara Jagann tha and the gods who had come for the
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