Bahubali
unknown dates,  before written history

aka:  Gommateshvara
youngest son of the 100 children of the first Jaina
teerthankara, Lord Rishabha

revered as a great meditator in Indian religious history

giant statue, 60 feet high, carved out of a single block
of stone is a major pilgrimage site in
Shravanabelagola, Karnataka, India.
created c. 980 CE.
In South India there is perhaps the best sculpted and
the greatest statue in the world. It is in a place called
Gomteshwar. It is the statue of a Jaina sannyasin,
Bahubali. The word bahubali means man of strong
arms; and he was really a giant of a man. He was the
son of a king, and the king became a monk. The king's
eldest son's name was Bharat, and because of this
man's name, India's oldest name is Bharat, the land of
Bharat.

                                               --Osho
             From Misery to Enlightenment, ch. 19
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