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rya r dhara: He was P r van tha's sixth Ga adhara. His father's name was N gabala and mother's name was Mah sundar. He got married to king Prasenajita's daughter R jamat . Remembering his past birth and the untimely death of his younger brother became the prime reasons for his taking initiation. V risena: The seventh Ga adhara of Lord Pr van tha, V risena was the resident of Mithil. Ya odhar and Namir j were his parents. His values of the past birth were so strong that since his childhood his mind was attracted towards mendicancy. With the permission of his parents he went to Lord P r van tha's samava ara a with other prince friends of his and impressed by the sermon, took initiation and became a Ga adhara. Bhadraya a: Bhadraya a was the eighth Ga adhara of The Lord. His father was Samarasimha and mother Padm. In a garden named Mattakumja he saw a man wrapped in pointed nails. When Bhadraya a removed the nails from his body he got to know that his brother had done this on account of a past life's enmity. Seeing the selfishness of this world his mind became detached from the world. With many of his friends he accepted initiation from Lord P r van tha and became a Ga adhara. Jaya and Vijaya: Both of them were residents of r vast and were brothers. Both loved each other. Once they dreamt that they have a very short life. Feeling disenchanted with life, they came to the Lord to accept mendicancy and taking initiation, became ga adharas.
va yakaniryukti and Tiloyapa att mention these ten ga adharas, whereas Samav y mga and KalpaS tra mention only eight ga adharas of
r van tha. Clarifying this difference the commentator of KalpaS tra, Vinaya Vijaya has written that Jaya-Vijaya were two ga adharas of short life-spans hence mentioning only eight ga adharas is considered correct.
P r van tha's C tury ma Religion
The initiation that Lord P r van tha gave into the religion based on scripture and conduct aiming at sincere and prudent people is known as C tury ma-dharma or four fold vows. Yama means supressing - to put an end to the bondage of soul through four ways, that is to say, to keep it restrained and orderly is the essence of C tury ma-dharma. These four
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