A Summary of the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapuranam : 4.5 - Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================== ========================================================================= Saturday, October 29, 2022. 09:00. Chapter-4. The Stories of Siva and Sati, and Rishabhadeva and Bharata -5. ========================================================================= The highlighting katha in this Skandha is the stories of Rishabhadeva and Bharata. Rishabhadeva was a king who abdicated his throne and became an ascetic in the forest. The Jainas consider Rishabhadeva as their first Tirthankara because he lived like an utter renunciate who would not even wear clothes, which is the description of a Tirthankara in Jain literature. Digambara was the behaviour of this Rishabhadeva. Such was his austerity, such was the tejas that emanated from his person, such was the energy that was in his personality, that it is said that wherever he eased himself, that part of the earth would become gold. Wherever he went, people would run after