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Being confident, the king returned to his palace. He thought that the means. of escape shown by Mahavir are quite easy to accomplish. He bowed to Mahavir and departed.
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When the king Shrenik ning to his palace, he met on his way one Muni. He was doing violence and filling his bag with fruits from the tree.*
*In some books it is mentioned that the Muui carried a net for catching fish, on his shoulders. He explained that he was Kshatriya-(a warrior class) turned recluse, and because of deep-rooted habit he could remain without wine and meat. "The other devotees of Mahavir also do like that secratly."
Shrenik gave him advice not to do irreligious work and that he shonld not put false charges on other innocent monks to hide his own weaknesses.
