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[ 13. 11. them according to fitness. He sat in the vicinity of the patriarch; and stayed with him for a short time, engaged in religious talks. Then he said with a courteous bow to the venerable patriarch. “Do me the favour to have a dinner at my place with all your people.” The patriarch said "Dear son, so will it be, but here there is one great hermit called Agnis’arman; he does not eat every day but once every month. And even then on the fast-breaking day, on the first entrance, from the first house; even if he gets anything or not, he returns and does not go to another house. So excepting that hermit, your request is granted.” The king said "Revered sir, I am highly favoured. Now where is that great hermit? I will then see him and make myself sinless by seeing him." The patriarch said “ Dear son, he is in meditation under the mango-grove.” Then the king went to the mango-grove with an agitated mind. He saw there Hermit Agnis’arman, under the meditation of the particular sort; who sat in a Padmasana posture; who kept the eyes steady; and who quieted all the varied activities of mind.[13] Then the king whose hair-ends bristled out of joy, bowed to him. The hermit also congratulated him respectfully with a greeting and speaking' welcome to you' asked him to sit. The king as he sat on a goodly seat said "Sir, what reason have you to practise this very difficult penance ?" Hermit Agnis’arman replied “ O highsouled one, the causes are the miseries of poverty, insults from others, deformity and Gunasena, the son of the king and (i.e. who is) my beneficial friend." Then the king with the doubt raised by his name, said, “Well, sir, as to the causes of this activity like the misery of poverty
| SR No. | 002314 |
| Book Title | Samraiccha Kaha |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Madhusudan Modi |
| Publisher | Gurjar Granth Ratna Karyalay |
| Publication Year | 1935 |
| Total Pages | 386 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 17 MB |