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The maid-servant therefore hurriedly retraced her steps and told Agnisharma :
"Your Holiness ! The prince has not slept whole night. He had a severe headache. After great efforts, the court physician has been successful in making him sleep. It is the order of the physician not to awaken him under any circumstances. so I am rather helpless in delivering the message about your visit.”
Now there was no need to hear anything more. Agnisharma understood that this was a new of deriving pleasure by hasassing him in this way. 'He had deliberately behaved with me in this way.'
He returned to the Ashram. He returned with as much mental pain as he had gone to the palace with enthusiasın.
There were great psychological upheavals in the minds of the hermits. What a great evil thing is done ! Agnisharma did
