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extremely powerful and endowed with many extraordinary powers. Hence they should be invited tomorrow in the royal court to treat your hunch back and make it straight with their extraordinary powers. But those Jain monks will not be able to do so. Before these Jain monks utter any word, I shall tell those Jain monks in clear terms in the royal court and announce that whosever religious teacher can relieve the king of his incurable hunch back, the same monk will be anointed as the religious teacher of the ruler and his religion will become the religion of the state. The Pāņdya ruler is extremely keen to get rid of his sickness. He will immediately accept this suggestion. This way you will have no difficulty in establishing aiva religion in the Kingdom of Pāņdya dynasty.'
Considering this suggestion of the queen as an extremely potent opportunity to achieve his objective, he (monk J nasambandhara) said *Please have faith in me. Based on the Yogic activities I shall definitely cure Pāņdya king of his ailment for his life'.
The queen presented her proposal to king in a very clever manner. The king accepted this proposal by queen. He authorised his officer to invite with due respect Jain monks to the royal court next morning.
Next morning, Jain monks appeared in the royal court. The prime minister respectfully requested them to take their appropriate seats and cure the king of his ailments from its roots.
The queen requested the Jain monks thus, 'Lord, you are the religious teachers of the king. Kindly leave no stones unturned in relieving the king of his ailments. Therefore from all of us and the King, certain conditions have been made essential today. Any one saint who cures the King of his ailments will become the royal religious teacher. Being the royal religious teacher, you are given the first opportunity to do so. On your being unsuccessful other religious teachers will also be given this opportunity'.
According to writings in ‘Periya Pura', the first opportunity was given to Jain monks. They used all types of mantras, tantras etc but could not succeed in treating the king.'
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