| Volume - IX |
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| Culture Course |
JADA BHARATA |
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| When death
approached, the deer entered the water of a river and standing there, gave up its body. In the next birth the deer was born as the son of a pious brahmin. The past tapas lingered in the child's mind and so he did not want to commit the same mistake. As a child Bharata in his third birth did not show any attachment to his family. He did not even speak. People therefore called him Jada or a dunce. Hence the name Jada Bharata. His father however gave him the sacred thread and tried to teach him the Vedas. Bharata did not make much headway in it. |
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