Monk and Monarch

Author(s): Vidyavijay
Publisher: Deepchand Banthia

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all the blame on Jagmal and asked him to go out of Khambhat. Jagmal even appealed to Akbar and was successful in getting from him a warrant for the Suri's arrest. But Akbar soon came to know the truth from two Jains named Manu Kalyan and Mansingh. Thus the Jains were able to save the Suri even before Akbar's first warrant reached Gandhar, where the Suri was living then.
So.
After the initiation of Somavijaya, the Suri once came to Kungher via Patan, and passed the monsoon there. A monk named Somasundar was living at Kungher. A monk named Udayprabhasuri also came there after the Paryushana holidays. (This Udayprabha must have been one of the degenerated Sadhus. Otherwise how can he go from one place to another in monsoon ? ) This Udayprabha told the Suri to greet Somasundar, but the Suri replied that he was unable to do so, as his Guru also had not done Thereupon Udayprabha went to Patan, saw the governor Kalakhan and told him that Hirvijaysuri, by his magical powers, had stopped the rains. Kalakhan took this as true and sent 100 soldiers to arrest the Suri. These soldiers besieged Kungher. But the Suri was able to run away during night. A merchant named Tola, who lived at Vadavali, 15 miles from Patan, sent some Kolis with the Suri; and the Suri, under their protection, started for Vadavali. On the way, a monk named Labhvijay, who was with the Suri, was bitten by a snake; but simply by the touch of the Suri's hand, the serpent's poison failed to act.
Those soldiers who had gone to Kungher, not finding the Suri there, went to Vadavali. But they were unable to find the Suri there. The Suri was effectively concealed by the people. He had to stay confined to a cellar of a house for three months. (A. D. 1578. )3
In A. D. 1580 also he was similarly molested. When the Suri came to Ahamadabad, some one went to the governor Shihabkhan' and told him that Hirvijaysuri had stopped the rains. Shihabkhan at once called the Suri in his presence and asked. "Why does it not rain? Have you stopped it?" The Suri replied, "Why should we stop the rain? By the failure of rains people will be afflicted; and their affliction is our affliction. How can we stop rains? While they were thus conversing, the famous merchant of Ahamadabad, named Kunvarji, came there. He explained to the
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