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poison at once took place. Atlast calling the King and his pupils the Guru said, "cremate my body in Upasraya and while doing so keep a bowl full of milk near my head so that Kaustabh gem might fall into it. Then you must take it away." Then after offering his last prayers and submitting to four submissions, he quietly breathed his last.
On account of the devotion he bore to his Guru, Kūmārapāla applied the ashes of the Guru's body to his fore head and hence all the followers initated him with the result that a great pit was left behind there and this is called 'Hèmakhad (The pit of Hémac'andra)
Kumārapâla grew extremely sorry due to the death of the Guru. The Guru had fore-cast that Kumarapala with to die sıx months after his death, and he would have no son. Exactly after six months Ajayapāla his nephew gave him poison. No sooner did the King know of this than he ordered that the conch --shell called Visahara' (Remover of the poison) should be brought to him from the safe but it had been removed from there by Ajayapala Then accepting the four sub missions according to the Jain holy retes Kumārapāla also died.
Not only the worshippers of Hémac'andra Suri, but also his opponents were in great number.
In spite of this, he could stand against them all by means of his celibacy and versatility. Even after a careful search, not a single occasion is found through out his life when he seems to have been defeated. Man can do every thing, but to lead the life of an ascetic and at the same time to maintain one's position at the royal court or assemblies full of numerous intrigues and treacheries without any one to sing one's reputation even to the smallest extent and to secure seif control, is destined only in the life of some rare persions like Śreemad Hémac'andrāc❜ārya.
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