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equally in those inns with free, tasty food served along with ghee. People started flocking into those rest houses; staying there with their families they protected their lives during that time of horrible famine. During the famine, which prolonged for a long time, in the morning and evening's people were provided with tasty meals in these houses. Apart from this, he donated 21 thousand M dhaka, i.e. 200 lakh kilos of corn to Suratra (probably Al udd na Khilaj ), 8 lakh kilos to King B saladeva, and 12 lakh kilos to King Hamm ra and he gave corn to other kings adequate enough to feed the entire population in their kingdoms.
Apart from his excellent and systematic arrangements to see that not even a single countryman remains hungry, he also supplied corn to the kings, merchants and social reformers of distant lands in large quantities whenever they approached him. East to west and north to south, millions of people, had to their heart's content, two meals a day served with ghee and sang in praise of Jagad ha and showered him with blessings.
Other than serving food in an organised manner regularly, Jagad ha also opened special houses for alms and started donating corns. With a noble intention that wealthy distinguished families or high born people, who shy away from going to the Choultries and eating there, should neither starve nor face any hardships during that famine, Jagad ha opened houses for alms and sitting behind a curtain, he started giving alms in the mornings. Wealthy and distinguished people used to come there and stretch their hands into the veil. Jagad ha sitting behind the curtain used to place either gold or silver coins in aplenty.
Listening to the singular out of the way and tales of benevolence of Jagad ha, the King of A ahillapura Pa a a wanted to test him. One day he reached there in disguise and stretched his hand inside the curtain.
On seeing the heated copper coloured strong hand with strong lines of fate, education, wealth, fame, comforts, luxury, etc Jagad ha thought that he must be belonging to a royal family who has come upon this pathetic state. He thought to himself that he should give him such an object with which he can spend his entire life without any worry, happily and luxuriously. With this thought he took out an extremely expensive gold ring studded with invaluable diamonds from his own finger and placed it on the king's palm. King B saladeva was astonished. For a
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