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for so long a time as six months 1" With an idea of investigation he sent to Câmpă's place Maņgala chaudhari and Kamarsa Khan, who observed her life there and got all doubts cleared by conversing with the pious lady Then they came to the Emperor and reported that there was no exaggeration in what he had come to learn from his attendant. In the end, they added that Campā had told them that all that was due to the potency of their preceptor Hiravijaya Sûri. Naturally, Akabar grew eager to behold such a lustrous sage.
Again after some time Akabar behold a great procession. At his inquiry Todarmal told him that the six-month-penance of the Jaina Lady Canıpā had been over and that the Jainas had arranged the procession to celebrate the happy occasion. The Emperor enquired whether the lady herself was there in the procession and learnt that she was.
Mean-while the procession approached the royal palace and Akabar sent some polite messengers to fetch the holy lady to his palace with due respect. And when he questiones her about her ansterities Cámpā merely reladed to him the prowess of her great preceptor Hiravijaya Suri
This having made his anxious desire to have the privilege of seeing the great Ācarya more ardent, he instantly sent forth two Jaina gentlemen Mānu Kalyāna and Thânsinh Ramaji and asked them to write to Hiravijaya Sūri entreating him to visit the royal palace. He himself wrote to Shihab Khân, the, Governor of Gujarāt, bidding him a send the Stri to him with due veneration and well-come.
Shihab Khan was naturally astonished and confused this command. The moment he went through the order, he recollected the past hindrances put to the Sūri by his own self and grew penitent for the same. But there was then no use crying over spilt milk He sent forth the veteran Jainas of Ahmedābād and revealed the matter to them Consequently some of
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