Shri Bhadrabahu Swami was born in Pratisthapur city. Both Bhadrabahu and his brother Varahmihir were expert scholars in four Vedas and fourteen Vidhyas, While they happened to meet the versatile learned personality Yashobhadra Surijee, both of them renunciated the world. Shri Yashobhadra Surijee found Bhadrabahu Swami more suitable because of his knowledge of 14 Vidhyas and his suitability for the position, made him Acharya and his direct successor. This made Varahmihir very angry, and his threw up his monk hood. At this time, there was a birth of prince in the king palace and Varahmihir predicted that he will have a long life of 100 years. Bhadrabahu Swami was a leader of Jain order at that time. He did not come to palace to give his blessings to the new born prince. Varahmihir took up this opportunity and made both the king and his people think against Bhadrabahu Swami. Knowing this Bhadrabahu Swami conveyed that the prince was going to die on the Seventh day from today, and he will go to console the king at that time. He mentioned that the prince will die because of the cat. Thought the king had great faith in what Varahmihir had predicted, as a measure of precaution he drove away all the cats to jungle. The young prince was guarded well to be protected from the cat. However on the seventh day some article with a sign of a cat fell on the prince, and prince suddenly died. Knowing this Bhadrabahu Swami came personally to console the king. And the king greeted him with great respect. Varahmihir’s plan thus failed and this made him more furious, and after his death, he became a Vyantar Dev. He, in the life of Vyantar Dev could know about his previous life. He was jealous to Jainism and made the whole Jain order, his target of great anger. He spread the disease of Cholera among the follower of Jainism. A number of people suddenly died of Cholera. The Jains came to Shri Bhadrabahu Swami about such happening. Being versatile knowledgeable person he could realize through his knowledge, the real cause of such epidemic. In order to save the Jains from such epidemic situation, he composed “Uvasaggaharam Stotra.” The Uvasaggaharam Stotra was so power full that it unlified the power of Vyantar Dev.
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