2nd Bhav of Prabhu Parshva ~ Yuthpati Elephant [Post 3]

In last 2 posts we illustrated 1st bhav of Lord Parshva of Marubhuti wherein he was killed by his elder brother Kamath in angst. Last posts can be accessed at http://notions4ever.blogspot.in/search/label/Lord%20Parshvanath

Now taking the story further, King Arvind of Potanpur under whom Kamath & Marubhuti used to live once heard Aacharya Samantbhadra & thereafter takes Diksha under him. King now turned to Saint started doing great tapp's & learnt a lot. Finally he wished to visit Ashtapadd Mahatirth once & tells about the same to a merchant named Sagardutt. Sagardutt too found out details about the Ashtapadd Mahatirth from King turned Saint. So finally merchant requests the King Arvind now a Saint to take all of them too to Ashtapadd Mahatirth. They all left in huge numbers towards Ashtapadd Mahatirth.

Slowly gradually they reach in a forest on their way to Ashtapadd Mountain & rested there. While some elephants saw so many people in huge numbers in their forest & YUTHPATI ELEPHANT who was the leader of all elephants thought that these people might have come to catch & kill them. Hence he leads all elephants to destruct the sheds of humans [pic 2] but while doing destruction as soon as yuthpati elephant sees King Arind turned Saint he feels that he knows this saint & stops destucion.

King Arvind turned Saint comes forward & tells Yuthpati to calm down & tells him that he is same King Arvind under whom Yuthpati used to live in bhav of Marubhuti. Hearing all this, Yuthpati gets in deep thought & obtains Jatismaran Gyan whereby he recollects that he is the same great King Arvind under whom he lived in birth of Marubhuti [Pic 1].

As he understands that these are just travelers who are going to ashtapad tirth for pilgrimage, he immediately bows down & asks for forgiveness from King Arvind who is now a Saint. King Arvind who became Saint told Yuthpati that JUST BECAUSE THAT YOU CAME INTO ANGER IN YOUR LAST BREATH WHILE YOUR BROTHER KAMATH WAS KILLING YOU IN BIRTH OF MARUBHUTI, YOU HAVE BEEN BORN AS AN ELEPHANT SO NOW YOU SHOULD BRING IN MORE QUALITIES OF FORGIVENESS WITHIN YOURSELF & DO LOTS OF DHARM AARADHNA AS YOU WERE A LEARNED SHRAVAK ONCE WHO USED TO UNDERSTAND TATVA'S.  [Pic 3]

After this yuthpati became quite silent & involved himself in great dharm aaradhna. He used to drink water only after it gets somewhat heated under the sun & didnt disturb anyone while on other side KAMATH after his death is re-born as a great Snake of Kurkut yoni & can fly too. Once while Yuthpati elephant entered in a pond to drink water, he got stuck in mud beneath while Kurkut snake was passing by. He sees Yuthpati elephant & remembers his previous birth. Kurkut Snake (Kamath's) anger was still not gone for his brother & hence he give snake bites to Yuthpati to kill him BUT this tie while dying yuthpati snake thinks that as Kamath, his brother of previous bhav is under anger so he has given him snake bite but he should not enter into anger & FORGIVES KURKUT SNAKE EVEN AFTER THE SNAKE HAS BIT HIM.

Here ends story of 2nd bhav of Lord Parshva as an Yuthpati elephant. SEE HOW KARM'S GIVE RESULTS as since Yuthpati elephant forgave even in his last moments, he gets his 3rd birth as a Tiryanch Dev while Kurkut Snake (Kamath) who dies after biting several people & creatures gets birth in 5th Narak which we shall discuss in our 4th post.

If anything is said against Jinvaani then please do forgive me, Michchhami Dukkadam. _/\_