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of 300 Saivites - Ja dh r ascetics had arrived at A ahillapura Pa a a and Kum rap la was one amongst them in the disguise of an ascetic.
Siddhar ja wanted to catch Kum rap la and kill him. So he invited all the 300 ascetics to the palace for bhik (to procure alms). Jayasimha knew that Kum rap la has a lotus mark and long vertical line on the sole of his feet. So he started washing the feet of ascetics one by one to recognise Kum rap la. When Kum rap la's turn came, the king washing his feet felt the marks and at once became alert. Kum rap la sensed the danger and before the king could gesture to his men to kill him, hiding under the cover of ascetics he escaped from a secret door that he was previously familiar with. He thought that he had no other place of safety, except the lodgings of Hemacandra S ri. Thus determined, he entered into the lodgings of c rya and requested him with folded hands, “O Lord! C lukya king Jayasimha wants to kill me. Please protect me from his wrath”. Hemacandra S ri immediately hid him in the room of scriptures (written on Palmyra leaves) underneath them.
Searching for Kum rap la everywhere, the soldiers entered the lodgings and looked everywhere, but could not find him. So they went back. At night, when everything appeared normal and quiet, crya went to Kum rap la and said, “Escape now through the desolated forests as fast as possible and flee out of the territories of Gurjara Kingdom.”
Passing through the dense forests and crossing mountains, Kum rap la reached the ascetic grove of V madeva. Just he was passing through a potter's house called ' liga'; he heard the clip-clop of the horse hoofs. He immediately rushed into the potter's house and said, “Please, hide me somewhere and save my life.” The potter at once hid him in the fire place behind the unburnt pots and covered him with wood, sticks and grass. He cleverly kindled the fire too in the corner of the furnace. The royal servants came running, rushed into the house and asked the potter, "Has any youth come here?” The potter replied without any hesitation, “No sir! Nobody has come here. If you want please check the house and yard.” The soldiers went around inside and outside searching for Kum rap la. As fumes of fire were emerging from furnace, no soldier had gone there. The soldiers, not finding Kum rap la in the potter's house moved further. When they had gone out of the sight, the potter took him out and hid him at another place under the hay stock and later offered him food also.
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