Sadhana
Sadhana · sa-dhana, “the one with wealth”
Sadhana, also called Sadana, was born in the house of a cāṇḍāla who slaughtered goats, and he was devoted to his father and mother. The Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa tells that he was the aṃśa of Iḍāpati, one of the two Aśvinīkumāras, and that in an earlier birth he was the brāhmaṇa Satyanidhi. He sold meat, weighing it with a śālagrāma-śilā. He came to Kabīra, became his disciple and lived near him, and at last he entered samādhi in Naimishāraṇya.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapters 18, 21
His origin in Iḍāpati
Sūta tells a muni that Bṛhaspati told Mahendra and the devas at Prayāga the gāthā of the Aśvinīkumāras, the two sons of Bhagavān Sūrya and Saṃjñā. Bhagavān Sūrya said to them that Iḍā Devī, the śakti of Soma, would be their elder wife and Piṅgalā, the śakti of Sūrya, their younger wife, and that of the two one would be Iḍāpati and the other Piṅgalāpati. If the cruel glance of Śanaiścara falls on the twelfth place from a person’s rāśi, ārādhana of Iḍāpati brings relief.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 18
His life
Sūta tells Śaunaka that the Aśvinīkumāras, foremost of the devas, hearing this account from Bṛhaspati, were pleased and were born by their aṃśas on the earth in the śūdra-yoni. Iḍāpati was born in the house of a cāṇḍāla who slaughtered goats. He became famous as Sadhana, devoted to his father and mother.
He sold meat, weighing it with a śālagrāma-śilā. He then came to Kabīra, became his disciple and lived near him.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 18
His former birth as Satyanidhi
Earlier Sadhana was a brāhmaṇa named Satyanidhi, but he showed a frightened cow to a cāṇḍāla. As a result, Sadhana’s hands were cut off in the king’s court.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 18
His samādhi
The Pratisarga Parva tells that when the mleccha-yantras had been made fruitless, Sadhana entered samādhi in Naimishāraṇya. Nityānanda entered samādhi in Śāntipura, Hari at Nadīhāpattana, Kabīra in Māgadha and Raidāsa at Kaliñjara.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 21
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapters 18, 21