A rugged demon called Viprachitti, who was born to Kashyapa from a wife named Danu, was killed by Mukhyaprana during the Devasura war. This Viprachitta was born again during Dwaparayuga as Jarasandha, son of Bruhadratha, the king of Magadha. The twin daughters of the then king of Kashi, who was the son of Uparicharavasu, were the wives of Bruhadratha. As Bruhadratha did not have children, he appealed to Chanda Kaushika Muni to bless him with a son. The Muni gave him a fruit, which Bruhadratha cut into two pieces and gave one piece each to his two wives. Both of them consumed the fruit and got pregnant. However, they delivered half portion each of a baby boy. Each part was vertically half of human body. Frightened by that unshaped, ugly and horrible semi body, the two wives of Bruhadratha got the body thrown away into garbage. Grama Devata and a female demon called Jara tried to consume the two parts. When tried to bring them together, they joined together and there emerged a baby boy. Immediately, that female demon handed over the child to Bruhadratha. Since the body had been joined, although by accident, by female demon called Jara, the boy was named as Jarasandha, where Jara is the name of the female demon and Sandha is 'joined'. That is how Jarasandha was born.
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