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stopped speaking and deeply sighed. All of a sudden Devabodhi rubbed his arms and uttered-“ Does not matter." Then the Guru continued teaching, but the king wanted to know what had happened. As an answer to the question of the king Hemacandrā c'arya said, " In the temple of C'andra prabhava swami in Devapūri a rat was carrying away a burning wick and this had caused fire there Dévabodhi extingiushed the fire by means of rubbing his arms. The king inquired about the truth of this through personal messengers, and it was quite true.
Kumārapāla had made up his mind not to leave his capital in monsoon. Once his spies informed him that the Muslim king of Gazanı had decided to invade at no other time but monsoon A great calamity relating his duty befell Kämârapāla If he stuck to his vow he would fail to protect his country; if he pre. pares to perfrom his duty, he would have to leave off his vow He could not solve this problem even after thinking for a long time, and hence he came to Hémac'andrāc'ārya who advised him not to worry.
After the king left him, he set on Kamalāsana (A posture of sitting called 'lotus seat') and meditate d After a short time a palanquin seemed to be descending from the sky. A person was sleeping in the palauquin. He was the King of Ciazani Using his Yoga-vidyå (a miraculous power) the Guru had called the King The King was surprised to find him in the capital of Gujerāt and was more so when he found himself in bondage. Coming to know of the whole position, he promised to be at peace with Gujarat, and to protect the lives of living beings in his state for six months Only then, he was released
Once there was a hot discussion between Hèmac'andrāc'arya and Devabodhi regarding as to who than it was 15th day of the bright half of the month or of the dark half of the month. It was the 15th day of the dark half (the last day of the month) but through over-sight Hémat'andrāc'arya had called it the 15th
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