Kumarpal and Hemchandracharya Diwakar Chitrakatha 041

Author(s): Nityanandsuri, Chidanandmuni, Shreechand Surana
Publisher: Mahavir Seva Trust Mumbai

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TO REPENT FOR VIOLENCE
One day a merchant named Khemu was getting his head massaged by his wife, just before taking his bath. The wife saw a louse in his hair
Khemu laughed
What the king will do to me? Come on, give me another louse, one by one I will kill them all.
I will kill. I am not afraid of your king.
Swami ! there is a louse in your hair.
Where? Show me,
No! Kill no more louse.
KING KUMARPAL AND HEM-CHANDRACHARYA
The wife picked the louse and gave it to him. Khemu took it in his palm and crushed it. The wife shouted
Hey....! What have you done? Don't you know that in King Kumarpal's state it is forbidden even to kill a louse.
Just then some soldiers on the beat entered
What?
Who utters-1 will kill, I will kill ?
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