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Bhoja is extremely pleased with the unique glory and scholarship of your scholars. He is very anxious to meet your scholars. Therefore please send your esteemed scholars to the royal court of King Bhoja with us.'
As per the wishes of King Bhoja and his promise as given through his principal advisers, to welcome and honour Src rya and other scholars fully, King Bh ma happily extended his approval for the departure of Src rya to M law de a.
Src rya thought, “Due to the benevolence of my teacher, this happy coincidence has occurred today that I am keen to go there and King Bhoja also sent his warm invitation to me.'
King Bh ma bid farewell to S r с rya with one elephant, 500 soldiers mounted on horses and one thousand walking soldiers to accompany him.
When the principal advisers of King Bhoja informed him about the arrival of Src rya, then King Bhoja himself accompanied with his principal advisers and army went to the border of M law de a to extend a warm welcome to Src rya.
It is forbidden for a monk to ride an elephant as per Src rya code of conduct. However as per the insistence of the principal advisers and with determination to take repentance for this, he did ride an elephant to proceed towards the border of M law de a.
Riding on elephants, both S r с rya and King Bhoja saw each other and got down from their elephants. They both embraced each other like brothers. The king made S r с rya enter his kingdom with full state honours.
There was a Jain monastery in the centre of Dh r nagar and Src rya went there while King Bhoja went to his palace.
After paying obeisance to the idol in Jain temple, S r с rya went to the study room of the presiding c rya B a Saraswati where there was light of knowledge all around and was echoing with the recitations of the students.
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