Risabha Deva

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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RISABHA DEVA
bright and handsome child, and soon acquired amazing proficiency in different arts and sciences.
When he grew up he was married to his mate-rnal uncle's daughter whose name was Manoramā.
Manorama was a very entertaining girl, and soon obtained possession over her lord's heart. A son, Kesava, who was beautiful and brave was born to Subidhi from Manorama. Kesava was really Śrimati's soul, who had re-incarnated in the second heaven after the life of a bhogabhumija. Past love again attracted him in the same family with his friend. Formerly the dearly beloved wife of Bajrajangha, she now became his son in his present incarnation!
Subidhi was much devoted to his son, and did not take to holy orders even in old age, owing to the love he bore for him. , But he practised the Householder's dharma fully, and observed all the vows and the pratimas (stages of advancement on the householder's path) regularly. At the end of his life he performed the sallekhana with full severity of renunciatation, and departed, absorbed in holy meditation and the contemplation of the Self!
8. The Achyutendra
On the termination of the earthly life, Subidhi's soul appeared in the sixteenth heaven, the name of which is Achyuta. He became the lord (Indra) in this heaven, and enjoyed the distinction of being the Achyutendra (Achyuta + Indra). The glory of the Achyutendra is indescribable in words. He is invested with the most wonderful of the riddhis (miraculous