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you want to save yourself come to him and seek his pardon. Otherwise the fate of evill and noble is sure to be decided in the battlefield.”
Enraged Yavan king said—"Idiot! Coward! Go and tell your master to face me in the battle field if he has some strength in his arms."
The emissary—“O Yavan king ! Don't be foolish to consider the kindness of my master to be his weakness. Consequence of war is destruction. That is why you are being given a chance."
The courtiers got angry at these words from the emissary. They stood up and said—"Idiot ! Are you an enemy of your master ? Why are you irritating the Yavan king. You appear to be a person who invites death by poking a snake or a lion."
At this point the elderly minister of the Yavan king stood up and said, "Courtiers ! It is not he but you who are enemies of their master."
Astonished Yavan king looked at his minister. The minister said—“Master Parshva Kumar is not an ordinary person. He holds the status of the infinitely powerful Tirthankar. Thousands of gods and kings of gods serve him. He is more powerful than a Vaasudev or a Chakravarti. To confront such a person is like colliding with a mountain."
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BHAGAVAN PARSHVA NAATH
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