Jain Legend Vol 3

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

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Bha had to suffer deep mental agony and troubled mind in the last stages of his life when he was 90 years old.
King Dunduka (successor and son of King ma R ja) turned out to be excrement lazy, cruel and of bad conduct. Due to bad company, he started even to conspire for the death of his charismatic and brilliant son Bhoja.
Somehow Bappa Bha came to know of this conspiracy to kill his prince Bhoja. Hence, apprising and alerting Bhoja of this conspiracy, he advised Bhoja to leave immediately for maternal grand parents' home in P al putra even without telling his father King Dunduka. Therefore, as per the farsighted advice of crya Bappa Bha , Bhoja could escape from his inevitable death and landed in his maternal grand parents' home in P al putra.
King Dunduka was deeply pained to know that his son had gone to Paliputra even without telling him. After lot of thinking and contemplation, King Dunduka thought that only c rya Bappa Bha can persuade somehow king of P al putra and bring back Bhoja. No one else can achieve this tough assignment.
Thinking so, one day he requested c rya Bappa Bha, 'O venerable teacher! With all these royal wealth I am not happy here without my son who is dearer than my own life. The entire world seems to me like a void in the absence of my son Bhoja. Only you are capable of bringing him back here from P al putra. Please oblige me and go to P al putra to bring back my son here. I will be grateful to you all my life.'
Knowing the conspiracy of King Dunduka, c rya r kept on avoiding the subject on the pretence that he is very busy in practicing a specific type of meditation for the moment. After its completion, he will look for an auspicious day and go to bring back prince Bhoja. Like this on one pretence or the other he kept on postponing the trip to almost complete the remaining years of his life (after the death of king ma R ja).
In the end, due to the highly persuasive request of King Dunduka,
c rya Bappa Bha had to unwillingly leave for P taliputra. While approaching P al putra, he thought, 'If I take Bhoja from P al putra to
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