Bhagawan Bahubali Statue (Gommateshwara), Hassan, Karnataka India

Bhagavan Bahubali (Vahuvali or Bhujavali) also known as Gommatesvara was the younger son of the first Tirthankar, Rishabhdeva. He was the king of  Podanpur. On his renunciation of the material world, the King gave his elder son, Bharatha, Ayodhya to rule and to Bahubali, he gave Poudanapura. Soon, armed with a ‘Chakra’, Bharata set out to conquer different kingdoms and obtain the status of a ‘Chakravarthi’. After achieving total sovereignty, he returned to Ayodhya but the ‘Chakra’ could not enter the city, indicating that there was still a kingdom to be won, Bahubali’s Poudanapura. Bahubali refused to accept the supremacy of Bharatha.
 Bharat tried to attack Bahubali's kingdom. Their ministers negotiated and   agreed that  instead of war, there would be three  contests  between the brothers.  In all three contests (Drisht Yudha, Jal Yudha, and Wrestling) Bahubaliji  defeated his elder brother. Bhagavan  Bahubali had been very much hurt by the behavior of his elder brother. He decided to surrender his kingdom to Bharat and left for the path of meditation. He did not want to bow before his other brothers who had already accepted ascetic life. This ego of Bahubaliji deterred him from visiting his father's court.   Hence he went on meditating but could not attain the Keval Jnana, the supreme knowledge.