Bharata, the eldest son of Rishabhanatha, became a chakravartin, universal emperor, and demanded submission from his ninety-nine brothers; ninety-eight renounced the world rather than fight or submit. Bahubali refused both. To avoid the slaughter of two armies, the brothers agreed to settle it by three personal contests — staring, shouting and wrestling — and Bahubali, the larger and stronger, won all three. Bharata, humiliated, resorted to his discus, which by its nature could not harm a member of his own lineage. Bahubali raised his fist to end it, and stopped, seeing what he was about to do and what he had been fighting for. He turned the raised hand to his own head and plucked out his hair, renounced there, and stood in kayotsarga meditation for a year without moving, until vines wound up his legs and anthills rose at his feet. The accounts add a sting: he did not attain omniscience during that year, because a residue of pride remained — he did not wish to stand on land belonging to his brother — and it came only when his sisters were sent to tell him to get off his elephant of pride.