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1. Bhäraddāja (Bhāradvāja) A person in whose dead body Gosälà per: formed his fifth pauttaparihāra (entrance into another's body ).1
1. Bha. 550. 2. Bhäraddāya Family-name of Migasira constellation.
1. Sur. 50, Jam. 159. 3. Bhäraddāya A Brahmin belonging to Seyaviyā. He was a previous-birth of Mahavira.
1. Vis. 1809, AvaCu. I. p. 230, Kalp.V. p. 43. 4. Bhāraddāya One of the seven branches of the Goyama(2) lineage.1 Viyatta(1), the fourth Ganadhara of Mahāyiraand preceptor Mahāsamanas belonged to it. 1. Sth. 551.
3. Tir. 818. 2. Avan. 650, Vis. 2511.
1. Bhāraha (Bhārata ) Same as Bhārahavāsa.1
1. Utt. 18.34, Vis. 1715. 2. Bhäraha A heretical and laukika Scripture. It is read by the people in the forenoon. It is the some as Mahābhārata. 1. Nan. 42, Anu. 41, DasCu. pp. 109, 2. Anu. 25, AnuHe. p. 28, AnuCu. p. 13.
237, AvaCu. I. p. 119, AcaCu. pp. 178, 193, 303, NisCu. I. p. 103,
AnuCu. p. 12. Bhārahavāsa (Bhāratavarsa) One of the seven regions situated in Jambuddiva and also known as Bharaha(2) and Bhāraha(1). It lies to the south of mount Cullahimavamta, and the east, north and west of eastern, westhern and eastern Lavana ocean respectively. It resembles the shape of a paryarika ( couch ) in the north and that of a dhanuprstha in the South. Its area is to of the whole of Jambuddiva. Its viskambha (width ) is 5267's yojanas, while its Jivă (chord) measures 1447115 yojanas. In the middle of Bhārahavāsa there is mount Veyaddha(2) which divides it into Dābiņaddha-Bharaha and Uttaraddha-Bharaha. Rivers Gamagā and Sindhu(1) further divide the whole region into six parts (three northern and three southern). There occur two cycles in Bhārabavāsa, viz. Osappiņi and Ussappiņi, each having six eras. A set of fifty four illustrious persons takes birth in this region during each cycle. They are: twenty-four Titthaṁkaras, twelve Cakkavattis, nine Baladevas, and nine Vasudevas.? Nine Padisattus. i.e. Padivāsudevas are killed by the nine corresponding Vāsudevas. Kulag1. Jam. 10, 125, Sth. 197, 522, Utt. 4. Sam. 14.
18.34, Vis. 1715, Bha. 675, Sam. 54, 5. Jam. 10. Tir. 9.
6. Jam. 18, Tir. 9. 2. Jam. 10.
7. Sam. 54, Sth. 672. 3. Jam. 10.
8. Sth. 672.
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