Shrutsagar 2016 09 Volume 03 04

Author(s): Hiren K Doshi
Publisher: Acharya Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir Koba

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श्रुतसागर
reputation among the people would increase.
The king paid heed to the advice of his ministers and went to the sick queen. The queen concluded this to be the effect of the Vaidya's treatment and began to recover from the illness. She was so delighted to see the king after almost two years and tears of joy began to roll down her cheeks. The king was also moved by the sight and asked the queen to forgive him for his ill treatment. Both were on good terms as before and the queen insisted on Mafatlal being made the royal physician and as a result a huge sum of money was paid to him every month from the treasury.
सितम्बर-२०१६
It was then a neighbouring king attacked the city with a contingent of 5000 soldiers and laid a siege around the kingdom. The enemy king had gathered information from his spies that the king had an army of only 3000 soldiers hence he brought with him 5000 soldiers. The enemy king sent a message to the king to accept his sovereignity by the next day otherwise he would wage war against his kingdom. On getting the message the king convened an emergency meeting and consulted his ministers regarding the enemy's ultimatum. Someone suggested the king to take the advice of the Vaidyaraj. Vaidyaraj Mfatlal was summoned, the whole matter was placed before him and the king asked him if he had any solution to the crisis.
Mafatlal was over confident of his Triphala powder and so he said "If the 3000 Soldiers of our army take the powder three times till morning, after every two hours, then I think, this danger shall be removed." On the other end the Commander-in-chief of the enemy king had posted several soldiers and spies on the outskirts of the city to make note of the latest developments in the king's army. When they counted the soldiers who came out three times during the night to attend to their nature's call they found them to be 9000 in number. Hence they sent an alarming massage to their king that the prior information about the number of soldiers as only 3000 was wrong, as they had counted them as 9000 and it is better that they withdrew and return to their kingdom.
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