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to be leaving town. In the night, disguised as beggar, he gained permission to spend the night at the same place. There he saw Kama ha and Vasundhar meeting. Thereafter, seeing this misdeed, he went to king Aravinda seeking justice. At that very moment the king called Kama ha and ordered his soldiers that this sinner's face should be painted black and seated on a donkey, he should be thrown out of the city. The soldiers did so and throwing stones at him, sent him away. Condemned this way, he decided to commit suicide in a forest, but reflecting for a moment, became an ascetic and started meditating.
After sometime Marubh ti reflected that he shouldn't have taken family matters to the king and went to Kama ha to beg forgiveness, and seeing him Kama ha got angry and throwing a big stone on his head, killed him. Hearing this, king Aravinda became detached and renouncing everything, took initiation.
This way the soul of Lord P r van tha, going though birth and death, in the 9th birth as Suvar ab hu, accepted the spiritual path and obtained the T rthamkara n makarma when he became a lion's prey (Kama ha's soul) and completing his life, went to Prata realm of gods.
Birth and Parents
Completing 20 s gara years in Prata devaloka, Suvar ab hu's soul entered the womb of V m , queen of king A vasena of Varanasi, on the midnight hour of the fourth day of the dark fortnight of Caitra month under the constellation Vi kha. Seeing the 14 auspicious dreams entering her mouth the queen V m was very happy. On completion of her pregnancy she gladly gave birth to a son on the midnight of the tenth day of the dark fortnight of Pau a month with moon being conjunct with Vi kha constellation. According to Tiloyapa att, Lord P r van tha was born eighty four thousand six hundred and fifty years after the birth of Lord Nemin tha. Happy with the birth of his son the king A vasena performed the birth celebrations for ten days. On the 12th day at the time of naming, A vasena announced – “When the child was in his mother's womb the mother alerted me about a snake (P r va) moving about even in the darkness of night, and saved my life, hence it is appropriate to name the boy Pr van tha.” According to Uttarapur a Indra himself named P r van tha.
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