Jain Legend Vol 3

Author(s): Hastimal Maharaj, Shuganchand Jain, P S Surana
Publisher: Hastimal Maharaj Shugan C Jain P S Surana

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tree branch swinging in air, aim at the fruit on the back side of that branch.'
J mba immediately mounted his arrow on the bow and aimed at the fruit pointed by Vanar ja. The fruit fell on the ground. Filled with happiness, Vanar ja said, 'I am very happy with your courage and skill in archery to shoot down the difficult fruit. I shall appoint you as the prime minister of the (to be created) Gurjara Empire. Please take it that you are henceforth the prime minister of my grand and powerful Gurjara Empire. So with your sharp intellect, think of some plans so that we can amass immense wealth. With your intellect and my power, success will soon be at our feet. O great man of the future Gurjara Empire! Go and start finding some ways to amass immense wealth for the Gurjara Empire'.
Elder and trader J mba also accepted the challenge in the same spirit as was fit for a prime minister for the orders of his King. Vanar ja noted the name, address and other particulars of J mba in his diary and let him go happily.
During those days of struggle, to feed his soldiers, Vanar ja was compelled to surround and ransack the home of a rm 1 Jain elder in Village Kakara. On entering a room of his home, he opened the door of a storehouse and pushed his hand in between the open door. Due to some reason, his hand landed in a wide mouth curd pot. When he felt that his hand had landed in curd, he left the home empty handed.
In the morning when the residents of the home knew that their home was ransacked at night; then they started to look for missing things. When they found doors of store room for milk etc and seeing the hand marks of someone in the curd pot, they felt confident that their home was definitely ransacked at night but nothing from the house had been stolen.
When r Dev, sister of the elder took out the curd pot and saw the hand prints in the curd pot, she was filled with immense surprise. She immediately said, 'The person who came to ransack our home was not an ordinary person. These hand prints
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