Jain Legend Vol 1

Author(s): Hastimal Maharaj, Shuganchand Jain, P S Surana
Publisher: Hastimal Maharaj Shugan C Jain P S Surana

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from there, presented them to Cakravart Bharata. Very happily the king conferred honours on the General and gifting the entire army personnel asked them to rest for some time.
One day the cakra jewel again emerged from the armoury and through the skies began to move towards the northeast corner. The king's army, following the cakra jewel, reached close to the mountain Cullahimavamta where the cakra jewel stationed itself in the sky. The king ordered the army to camp there. King Bharata started his fast in the fasting hall. This was Bharata's seventh fast in the course of his campaign to win over the six parts of Bharata. On completion of his fast king Bharata took aim with his bow and released the arrow upwards. The arrow went several yojanas up and landed at the palace of Kum radeva of the mountain Cullahimavamta. Recognising the arrow that had fallen in his palace, Kum radeva understood the situation and he presented himself before Bharata, taking along with him various kinds of invaluable medicines, flower garlands, go r a sandalwood, etc. King Bharata accepted his gifts and bade him farewell with appropriate honour and ceremony.
He then turned his chariot backwards and came to mountain abhak a. After touching abhak a mountain thrice with his chariot he wrote the following script on the eastern entrance of the mountain with his K ki jewel: “I am Bharata, the cakravart, sovereign Lord and first ruler and king Bharata of the second half of the third r of the declining happiness cycle. I have won over the entire Bharata and I have no enemies."
Having done that, Bharata reached the camp with his army. He broke the seventh fast and making his subjects happy in many ways, ordered the a hnik ceremony in honour of Kum ra of mountain Himavamta. After completion of the ceremony, following the cakra jewel the king Bharata reached mountain Vaitādhya in the southern direction. There to honour the Vaitādhya gods Nam and Vinam , king Bharata observed a fast. Consequently, by the time the fast was completed, entered Nam with clothes and jewellery and Vinam with the female jewel named Subhadr endowed with beauty of form and grace and qualities of a woman in the presence of the king Bharata. Bharata accepted the Vidy dharas' gifts and after due respects and ceremony, sent them. The subjects observed the a hnik ceremony.
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