Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v2.c8.s1.179

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1. Bharaha ( Bharata ) First Cakkavaṭṭi (Supreme King) of the Bharaha(2) region.¹ He had his capital at Viṇiyā.² He was the first son of Titthayara Usabha(1)³ and his queen Sumaṁgalā(1).⁴ Bharaha and Bambhī(1) were born as twins.⁵ Sumdarī(1) was his other sister who was born of Suṇamdā(2) together with Bāhubali.⁶ Bharaha had ninety-eight other brothers born of his own mother.⁷ His height was five hundred *dhanuṣas*.⁸ After having completed seventy-seven lakh *pūrva* years⁹ he became the king of Viniyā.¹⁰ He is called a self-consecrated king.¹¹ When Usaha attained omniscience,¹² Bharaha was hailed as the master of the divine disc (*cakkarayaṇa*).¹³ He duly brought Māgahatittha, Varadāmatittha, Pabhāsatittha, all the territories over the Veyaddha(1) mountain and all the northern parts of the Bharaha region under his subjugation¹⁴ He inscribed on a slab of Usabhakūḍa(2): “I am the first supreme king, Bharaha.”¹⁵ He got Subhaddā(9) his chief wife as a present from Ṇami(3) and Viṇami.¹⁶ He became the master of nine treasures (*nidhis*), fourteen jewels and many other things.¹⁷ He had sixty-four thousand wives, the chief being Subhaddā.¹⁸ Bāhubali did not accept Bharaha's suzerainty, hence, the latter attacked the former. Bharaha was defeated in all the five duels. Bāhubali, then, voluntarily transferred his territory to Bharaha.¹⁹ Thus, Bharaha became the declared paramount king of the Bharaha region²⁰ and stopped his war-campaign which lasted for sixty thousand years.²¹ His five hundred sons Usabhasena(1) etc. and seven hundred grandsons renounced the world and practised asceticism under Titthayara Usaha.²² Bharaha ruled for a period of six lakh *pūrva* years.²³ He and some others composed Āriya-Vedas.²⁴ He renounced the world as soon as he attained omniscience in his dressing-room.²⁵ He attained salvation on mount Atthāvaya after one lakh *pūrva* years.²⁶ His total age was 84 lakh *pūrva* years.²⁷ He constructed a shrine on this mountain where Usaha had attained emancipation.²⁸ In his previous birth he was Kaṇagaṇābha.²⁹ 2. Bharaha A region same as Bhārahavāsa.¹