Sri Devnarayan
This half of the narrative begins with Sadu
Mata's severe tapas(penance) on a hill near
the battle field. After eleven days, when her
honour and life is about to be threatened by
the Rana, she calls out to Bhagavan, who has
promised to be born as her son. Devnarayan,
who is playing a game of dice at the time with
king Basak, rises up on a stream of water that
splits apart the rock on which Sadu is seated.
Borne on that jet of water in a lotus blossom,
the infant Devnarayan falls into Sadu Mata's
lap.
Threatened by the Rana, Sadu Mata decides
to flee to her natal home in Malwa. Devnarayan
spends his childhood there without any
knowledge of past events. After eleven years,
one day Chochu Bhat, the bard and genealogist
of the 24 Bagaravat brothers comes to Malwa
in search of Devnarayan. Sadu Mata who knows
of his intentions tries to get him killed by
poisoning, but Devnarayan revives him. Chochu
Bhat then informs him of the battle between
the Bagaravats and the Rana. Devnarayan then
decides against his mother's will to return to
his fathers ancestral land and take revenge on
the Rana. While returning to the region of
Bhilwara and his capital town of Causla Kheda,
Devnarayan marries three princesses, one the
daughter of a det ( daitya), another the niece
of a netherworld serpent king, and the third
the daughter of the Gurjar ruler of Ujjain-
Pipalde. While returning Devnarayan also
meets up with his four cousins, Medu, Madno,
Bhangi and Bhuno, who likewise have grown up
unaware of each others' existence. Whereas
Medo and Madno have been adopted by the
Bagaravat's ally, the king of Ajmer, Bhangi has
grown up as a Nath Jogi in the company of the
Bagaravats' guru Baba Rupnath. Bhuno, whose
name has been changed to Khanderav, has been
adopted by the Rana himself. But once the
cousins realize their true origins, they join up
with Devnarayan to launch an assault against
the Rana. Before the final encounter takes
place, Devnarayan releases his herd of
980,000 cows and buffaloes in the royal fields
in order to destroy the Ranas crops. In the
end the cousins catch up with the Rana who is
trying to escape. He is beheaded by
Devnarayan's bow-string. But when Devnarayan
sees that Bhuno is sad over the death of his
foster father, he revives the Rana only after
Chochu Bhat has extracted the Bagaravats'
revenge from the Rana's stomach. Devnarayan
then retracts the title of "Rana" giving him
the title of "Sisodia". Thereafter Devnarayan
instructs the revived Rana to establish the
city of Udaipur, which according to the
narrative is named after one of Devnarayan's
names, Ud.Bhagwaan Dev Narayan was born on
Shanivaar, Saptami Shukla Paksh of Maagh
month and the year was Vikrami Samwat 968
(911 AD). Bhagwaan Dev Narayan lived a very
short life of 31 years on earth.He went to
BaikunthDhaam on Akshya Tritiya Shukla Paksh
of Baisakh month in Vikrami Samwat 999 (942
AD).This was the time when Samrat Mahedra
Pal divided his vast Empire between his two
sons and loyalty of Gurjar fuedatories like
Gurjar Chauhans, Gurjar Parmars, Gurjar
Chandillas etc. were divided. Ultimately around
915AD Samrat Mahi Pal established himself on
the throne of Gurjar Empire but a Great clan
of Bagarawat Chauhans of Gurjars was already
sacrificed due to this division of loyalties of
various fuedatory kings and their vassals to
these two Gurjar Pratihar Princes.
After Devnarayan has accomplished taking
revenge on the Rana, he decides to depart to
Baikunth (heaven). But his Queen Pipalde
requests him not to leave her childless. A boy
Bila and a girl, Bili are born to her. Bili is quick
to realize her father's divinity. But Bila is
stubborn and refuses to acknowledge his
father's authority. After many unhappy
incidents including being befallen by leprosy,
Bila begins to realize the divine power of his
father. He then agrees to look after
Devnarayan's very first shrine and become
Devnarayan's first priest from which the
lineage of priests follow. Then, having
established a place of worship, a lineage of
priests, and a community of devotees,
Devnarayan finally returns in his celestial
chariot to Baikunth.
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