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householder Dhanya's house with rice pudding. The gods showered five auspicious things expressing the glory of Giving / charity. c rya Gu abhadra in his Uttarapura mentions the fast-breaking as having occurred at the house of Dhanya, the king of Gulmakhe a. Padmak rti mentions his being initiated with eight fasts, instead of the a amatapa fast, which is noteworthy.
After taking initiation the Lord decided that during his mendicancy period at eth time penance he will remain in meditation and in this time he shall not have any attachment to his body and shall bear with all calamites.
Spiritual endeavour and calamities
Leaving Varanasi the Lord reached ivapur city and as per his resolve, stood in meditation in Kau mba forest. There, reminded of his past birth, Dhara endra arrived and to protect him from the sun, made an umbrella over him. Since then that place became known as 'Ahicchatra'. Again, wandering, the Lord reached a hermitage. Since it was evening he stood there under a Banyan tree in relaxation (k yotsarga) posture. Suddenly, Kama ha, cognizing through his knowledge of the Lord standing in k yotsarga posture, appeared in the form of Megham 1 demon to take revenge. With lot of anger remembering his past life, he gave the Lord all kinds of pain taking the forms of a lion, tiger, elephant, poisonous snake, scorpion and snake. Then he tried to frighten the Lord taking the form of a fearsome ghoul. But Lord P r van tha remained unshaken like a mountain. Seeing his deeds failing, Megham 1 started torrential rains through the power of his vaikriyalabdhi. It started to rain with thunder and lightning. Scared, the creatures of the forest started running helter-skelter. The entire forest was filled with water. The water level rose and covered the Lord's knees, waist, and then his neck and started to reach nose, but P r van tha's meditation was not disturbed. The Lord's body was about to drown in water when Dhara endra's throne shook. Through his clairvoyance he saw P r van tha's condition and created a lotus with a long stalk and making a seven-hooded serpent umbrella over his head protecting him from water beneath and rains above.
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