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month later on the very day of breaking of the fast, a war suddenly breaks out? These in your mind would all be excuses. Even the headache was a pretense, the talk of a war was a made up story. First, the request to be allowed the chance to perform the ‘parana”, then an extreme persistence about it, then feeling of anguish at having missed the ‘parana”. It was a ploy to make you accept the doing of 'parana’ at his hands and then to cause you harassment by making you miss it. Wouldn't one have these thoughts? While thinking like this, isn't one likely to be ired? Would it affect only us or in general, any person? Agnisharma had to bear the brunt of Gunasen's errors by missing out on ‘parana’ twice and had to continue his austerity for the third month. By then his equanimity had reached new heights, but when the same mistake was repeated the third time, he lost his temper. This show of anger was not acceptable to Karmasatta who considered his anger to be a crime and gave him a harsh punishment.
The minister, who had a score to settle with Khandhaksoori, had caused the King to wrongly believe something that gained him the right to punish Khandhaksoori and his disciples. He constructed a mechanical oil mill to crush Khandhaksoori and his 500 disciples alive. Khandhaksoori's 499 beloved disciples were crushed first, for no fault of theirs. The last disciple was a child monk who was very young, tender and delicate. Khandhaksoori requested the minister, “Brother! I won't be able to see him being crushed, please crush me first.” This small request was also declined. He crushed the
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