The emperor India is named for, who left his throne, loved a fawn too much, and finished his journey as a silent 'fool'.
Appears in
Bharata and the fawn — Skandha 5, adhyayas 7-13 — The king the land is named after renounces a kingdom, then loves an orphaned fawn so much that it costs him two more births.
Embodies
Detachment — Kings who walk away from thrones, and one royal sage who renounces everything except a fawn and pays for it with two births.
Who is a teacher — A son teaches his mother, a madman teaches a king, and an ascetic learns from a pigeon, a python and a courtesan.
Questions to explore
Is this Bharata the one India is named after?
What did Jada Bharata tell King Rahugana about who is carrying whom?
