Born in the dynasty of Priyavrata as the son of a Rajarshi called Rushabhadeva from Jayanti, Jadabharata was a great king. Kushavarta, Ilavarta, Aryavarta, Malayaketu and Bhadrasena were his five brohers. Jadabharata married Panchajani and begot children from her named as Sumati, Sudarshana, Rashtrabhuja, Dhoomraketu and Adarsha. He ruled over the kingdom for a few years after his father Rushabhadeva and very soon developed aversion and dejection over worldly pleasures. He distributed his empire called Ajnabha or Bharata Varsha among his children, went to the forests and undertook serious penance. One day, when he was having bath in a river, a deer came to the river to quench its thirst. Hearing the sound of thunder, it got frightened. As it was carrying, the deer aborted and died. Jadabharata took pity on the deer cub, took it to his hermitage and started bringing it up. Gradually, he became so compassionate and affectionate towards the up and growing deer that he started neglecting his obeisance and oblations for the sake of making the deer happy. Within a few years, he breathed his last but with the memory of deer. As such, he was born as a deer in his next birth, albeit with fully memory of his previous life. (Contd…)
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