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Muni decided to spend monsoon months: in Hastinapur. Namuchi found this a proper opportunity to avenge the Muni. He reminded King Mahapadma that he had promised a boon to Namuchi anytime in future.
Mahapadma : "Yes I remember, ask anything”
Namuchi : I want to perform one Sacrifice. (Yagna): So hand over this throne to me for one month and nobody should interfere in what I do.
He was granted this boon. As a King he ordered to arrange a big ceremony of Sacrifice. All priests and religious leaders gladly co-operated. But Acharya Suvrat did not participate. Namuchi was therefore burst into rage and passed the royal decree that the whole group of monks belonging to Muni Suvrat should leave the city within twenty four hours.
Acharya Suvrat and all his disciples
