Birugathradha was the king of Magadha and he married the twin daughters of King of Kasi (Banaras). While marrying he promised them that he would treat them equally in all respects.
After his marriage he did not have any offspring for long and he waited for years. He became very old and thought there is no use in ruling further and left for the jungle to meditate along with his wives after handing over the administration to his trusted ministers.
One day he visited Sanda Kausika Rishi, a famous sage and reported his problem and asked him to help him to over come his problem of having no issues.
The Rishi was touched by his problem and went into meditation under a tree. When he was in deep meditation a Mango fell on his lap. The rishi took it and gave to Birugathradha and told him to give it to his wife and his problem would be solved.
Birugathradha took the mango and rushed to his wives and as he has promised them earlier, that he would share everything equally between them, he cut the mango into two and fed them. Both his wives became pregnant and delivered two pieces of a baby identical to each other but of two sides of the same body. Each body part had one eye,one ear, half head, half body, one leg etc. So the wives became more sorrowful and the king asked his servant to take the bodies and throw them into the garbage.
One witch came to the place where the bodies were thrown and took them and put them together and it became one and started moving. The witch did not eat that child but brought it to the king and gave it to him as he is the saviour of all. King Birugathradha was very happy and gave the baby to his wives and they brought up that baby. Since the body was joined as one from two it has the capacity to join and separate. The child named as Jarasanthan and grew up to become one of the most powerful kings who could not be defeated by anybody.
Finally he was killed by Bheem who was also very powerful man and the son of Vayu.
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