Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v1.c5.s3.261

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1 Usabha (Rsabha) Son of King Nābhi and h queen Marudev of Kosalā or Ikkhāgabhūmi^1 He is regarded as the first Titthayara of the current Osappiṇī^2 He belonged to the Kāsava(1) lineage and had fe name Usabha First King First Mendicant First Omniscient and First Titthayara His height was five hundred dhanusas^3 The colour of his skin was like heated gold He had two wives Sunamdā(2) and Sumaṃgalā Bharaha(1) Bāhubali etc were his on hundred sons Bambhī(1) and Sumdarī(1) were his daughters^7 He lived two million pūrva years as a prince and six million and three lakh pūrva years as a king During his reign he taught for the benefit of the people seventy two science (of which writing is the first arithmetic is the most important and the knowledge of omens is the last) sixty four accomplishments of women one hundred arts and three occupations of men Anointing his hundred sons as kings and giving each a kingdom he along with four thousand royal persons renounced the world and entered the state of mokho d He used Sudamsaṇ (7) palanquin on that occasion^8 He received his first alms from Sejjamsa(3) He wandered in the countries like Aḍamba Bahal Illa Joṇaga and Suvaṇṇabhūm^9 He attained omniscience in the Sagaḍamuha park outside the town of Purimatāla^11 The sacred tree associated with him is yagodha He had grown hair on his head unlike other Titthayaras^3 He had his first disciples as Usabhasena(1) and Bambhī(1) He had under him eighty four groups of ascetics (gaṇas) eighty four Gaṇaharas (group leaders) eighty four thousand monks with Usabhasena(1) at their head three lakh nuns with Bambhī(1) and Sumdarī(1) as heads three lakh and five thousand lay votaries (men) with Sejjamsa(3) at their head and five lakh and fifty four thousand lay votaries with Subhaddā(9) at their head^1 Usabha lived one thousand years in a state inferior to perfection and one lakh purva less one thousand years as an omniscient Thus he lived eight million and four lakh pūrva years on the whole He attained liberation on the summit of mount Aṭṭhāyaya in the company of ten thousand monks^1 In some of his previous births Usabha was Dhana(4) Mahabbala(3) Laliyamga, Vairajamgha(1), Kesava(2) and Vairapābha^7 According to Sāntisuri the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa also refers to Ṛṣabha (Usabha) as the son of Nābhi and Marudevī of the Ikṣvāku lineage 18