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15 introductory symbol). Coincidentally Vrishabha (Bull) is the vehicle of Lord Shiva also! What an astonishing & synthesising representation this Bull enjoys! Afterall the Bull and its mother Cow - both are indispensable and extremely important factors & centres of agriculture and overall human prosperity, which have been given their unparallel importance not only by Rishabha, but by all thinkers & religions, well-wishers of mankind.
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In mankind's primitive age of Rishabha, there were nectar like KALPAVRIKSHA FRUITS on which only the primitive humans were living. When these Kalpavriksha Fruits went on disappearing gradually, the then King Rishabha taught his subjects to bake & boil corn foods (namely Shali) in earthen pots filled with water by keeping them amidst fire in between. Thus, this sort of natural simple & hygienic cookery-cooking taught by him, commenced. Next to other available fruits, this art of naturally boiled & baked food flourished and became ideal for human giving it perfect health, nutrition & longevity. In fact, this was Sattwik, Yogic food, the natural diet, the substitute of fruits when not available. Anyway, fruits and such baked boiled foods were the diets having bare minimum violence or no violence when man developed the art of fasting also, which again was shown by Rishabhadeva by his own practical example. The western religions of Christianity & Islam also suggest that the fruit of appeal or grain-corn of wheat were the first foods of primitive humans The Adam & Eve and that they were entirely vegetarians. Anyway, it is doubtless that such innocent, violence free foods were the diet forms of the forefathers of mankind.
The above described Rishabha's recipe of cooked foods in baked & boiled forms! took a beautiful shape of ACHAMLA or AYAMBIL, which has been prevailing from ages to ages down till date and the holy practitioner Jains follow it in form of a pious penance. It has proved to be all health providing, all purity & prosperity bringing means.
Thus, such natural baked-boiled food, fruits - the agriculture products & pure milk produced by Cow are the best & nectar like foods prescribed by Rishabha in his RISHABHANUSHASANA, establishing their utmost necessity in the Yogic and perfect path of spiritual sublimation. Such a natural pure food is a must when one is not fasting and for acquirement of these all, agriculture & protection of Cow and its progeny Krishi-Gopalana, assume centre place. Thus one can understand how Cow & Bullocks have had top most important place in RISHABHANUSHASANA and Bharatiya Agricultural Economy, endorsed by Lord Krishna, his cousin Tirthankara Neminatha and recently by Mahathma Gandhi & Acharya Vinoba Bhave, from time to time, from age to age, which we shall examine further here.
In Rishabhadeva's time, after he renounced the established kingdom and worldly material life, he handed over his kingdom and his life order the non-violent RISHABHANUSHASANA to his sons. His eldest son Emperor CHAKRAVARTI BHARATA, brother of historic Mighty BAHUBALI, bore the pious responsibility of propagating & maintaining the established non-violent life order of RISHABHANUSHASANA, which he could succeed in doing in course of his DIGVIJAYA of six continents of the world. The primitive humans in other countries, who were living & behaving in beast like
