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CHAPTER V
BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD
नाभे निसर्ग वक्ष्यामि हिमाहेऽस्मिन्निबोधत् । नाभिस्त्वजनयत्पुत्र मरुदेव्यां महाधु ति ॥१६॥ ऋषभपार्थिवश्रेष्ठसर्वक्षत्रस्य पूर्वजम् । ऋषभाद्धरतो जज्ञे वीरः पुत्रशताग्रजः ॥६०॥ सोभिषिच्यर्षभः पुन महाप्रव्रज्यया स्थितः ।
हिमाद्वं दक्षिण वर्ष भरताय न्यवेदयत् ॥६॥ [Tr. I shall relate the family of Nābhı: know that he flourished in the country called Hima; he begot, on Maru Devi, Rişabha Deva of bright radiance, who was the best of Kings and the Ancestor of the Kshatriya clan. To Rişabha was born, Bharata, the eldest of a hundred sons, and a great Hero. Prompted by the spirit of world-fight, Rişabha Deva gave Hima, which is in the south, to his son Bharata.]-The Brahmānda Purana (Hindu), XIV. 59–61.
It was in the last part of the night of the dark half of the second of the month of Aşādha that the WORLD TEACHER was conceived by the illustrious Queen of the Kulakara Nābhi Rai. The moon was at the time in the constellation known as the Uttarāṣādha. In the morning the celebrations were held, as we have already seen.
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