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From the Moharajaparajaya, it is clear that injury to living creatures was forbidden in V. S. 1216. (or A. D. 1160)
Though Kumarapala proclaimed 'amari', he did not wish that butchers and others who made a living by taking life or killing creatures should suffer; so he generously compensated the butchers by giving them three years' income.28
The later chroniclers also relate that Kumarapala proclaimed 'amari' for a period of fourteen years. They further state that this edict was strictly enforced. The story is told of a merchant of Sapadalakshadeśa, who was compelled to build the Yukavihar for killing a louse.29 The Mahaviracharita ( XII, v. 66) seems to confirm this story.
Hemasuri, then, impressed upon the king the necessity of abandoning gambling by enumerating its numerous vices and telling him the story of Nala.30 At its end, Kumarapala asked the sūri whether he could play at dice for the sake of pleasure; but when the sūri replied in the negative, the king took a vow to refrain from
28 Dvyasraya, XX, 4 to 37. 29 Prabandhachintamani, p. 232. 30 Somaprabha, Kumarapalapratibodha, P. 47.
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