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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Bharata instructed the organizers to enquire after the guests and only give food to those who were votaries ( r vakas). In the course of enquiry those who seemed eligible and right were sent to the king and the king would mark an insignia on them with this K ki jewel. These people and their progeny remained distinct from the characteristics of the monks and started to teach people not to indulge in violence, and were called as 'm ha a', 'm ha a'. This way the 'm ha a' people came about who later began to be called Brh ma a or ‘Brahmin'.
Bharata would make three lines on the r vakas through the K ki jewel of worship to the three gods, teacher and tradition or knowledge. tradition and character and this later on changed into yaj opav ta. This way the Brahmin caste was founded. Thus, between Lord din tha and Bharata cakravart's rule, the four castes were established.
Bharata' realisation of the self, omniscience and liberation
One day Bharata went to his glass palace adorned in finery. He was enchanted by his own self as reflected in the mirrors. Admiring his fingers he felt of the entire fingers one was not beautiful as the finger ring had fallen off somewhere. He then wondered how his fingers would look without any of the finger-rings and one by one he removed all his finger-rings, and then all his ornaments. Seeing his body thus devoid of all ornaments it seemed to him like a pond without a lotus flower, and without beauty. Seeing this Bharata thought all the attraction was due to the ornaments hence all this beauty was not one's own, but someone else', not real but false, not natural but affected. He felt that beauty adorned by worldly things is meaningless and full of illusion. Enchanted by it a human being forgets his own true self.
Gradually, the flow of thoughts of Bharata moved from regular rhythm through speed and total disregard for worldly things, and entering ap rvakara a, destroying the four obscuring karmas - j n vara ya, dar an vara ya, mohan ya, antar ya – he obtained pure intuition and pure knowledge. He became the knower and seer of all the modes of the past, future and present cycles. He removed all adornments and removed five fistfuls of hair. Bharata exited the hall of mirrors in the form of anomniscient and came out from the middle part of his palace, he arouse ten thousand kings and initiated them into the rama a tradition. He then
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