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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wife. The mid-wife with tears in her eyes presented the iron like rod to the king. Seeing the ugly looking figure on the top of the rod, the king became nonplus and immediately pronounced that crya Bhadra B hu in fact had deep and unique occult knowledge.
Taking the death of his newborn son as more painful than his own and loss of his own face, Var ha Mihira renounced the world and became a monk again. He became of firm opinion that c rya Bhadra B hu is the root cause of all his pains, loss of hard earned name and fame, death of his son and his renunciation.
Thus imbibed with deep feelings of revenge against his elder brother Bhadra B hu, he started observing many types of harsh and painful penances. He acquired great demerit by defaulting on the major vows undertaken as well as burning ego and not repenting on his mistakes /sins. After death, be was born as wicked vyantara with no extraordinary powers. This vyantara with pervert clairvoyant knowledge knew of his past life took a vow to take revenge against Bhadra B hu. After facing failure in this objective, he started torturing and inflicting injuries to Jain and Bhadra B hu's followers. These followers inflicted with pain caused by vyantara requested Bhadra B hu for relief saying, 'O Lord, how fortunate it is that people mounted on elephants are being bitten and injured by dogs? An ordinary vyantara is causing all these problems on innocent people practicing Jainism and following c rya Bhadra B hu.
Hearing all such cries and based on his deep scriptural knowledge,
c rya Bhadra B hu composed a miraculous stotra and asked his followers to recite it. His followers memorised it and regularly recited it. It resulted in all round relief from the pains inflicted as the vyantara was made weak by this stotra. This composition of c rya Bhadra B hu is popular even today and is known as “Uvasaggahara'.
c rya Bhadra B hu also composed "Bhadra B hu samhit' (an astrology masterpiece) and Arhat Cud ma i’ in Pr k ata. His composition 'Bhadra B hu samhit 'is not available today. Another text of the same name is not his creation but written by some other scholar.
Thus after serious research of several literary and other facts, we have tried to present selections of some important incidences from his life.
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