Monk and Monarch

Author(s): Vidyavijay
Publisher: Deepchand Banthia

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ambil. That day 80 Sadhus performed ambil. Suriji believed in ambil as a purificatory rite. After the performance of ambil he saw the Rao, and requested him to release the prisoners. The Rao released them all. Such was the power of the Suri.
SULTAN HABIBULLAH.
Once Suriji went to Khambhat. A Khoja named Habibullah lived there. He was extremely fat and ate one maund of food at one meal. This Habibullah once insulted the Suri. In this he was supported by a man named Mahio. He was successful in getting Suriji ordered to go out of Khambhat. This was a great insult. All the Sadhus left Khambhat with the Suri.
A monk named Dhanvijay went to Agra, saw Bhanuchandra who was there, and conveyed all this to Akbar. Akbar was very angry and ordered to kill Habibullah and respect Suriji. Dhanvijay returned with that order. Habibullah was terrified. He went to the Suri and requested him to save him. The Suri, with the usual magnanimity of his mind, saved him.
Habibullah, afterwards, always respected the Suri. Once when he went to the Suri, he found him preaching with a muhapatti (cloth to be tied round the mouth). He asked him the reason for so doing. The Suri said that he was doing so to see that no drops of saliva fell on the book which he was reading. This appealed to Habibullah.
The Suri told him to release some prisoners, which he did.
AZAMKHAN
In V. S. 1648 Hirvijaysuri was in Ahamadabad. At that time Azamkhan was the governor there. He had great faith in the Suri. Once when Azamkhan was starting for an invasion of Sorath, Dhanvijay, a pupil of the Suri, came to him and requested him to settle the matter about the Jain possession of holy places like Girnar, Shatrunjay, etc. Azamkhan replied he would do the needful after his return from the invasion.
In that invasion Azamkhan was victorious, and he thought that he was victorious because he had the good omen of seeing