While he was Royal Patriarch, Hindu practices proliferated. The numbers of monks were fewer than the Luri in the northern part of Chittagong Hill Tracts. The Luri were religious preachers who had left Buddhism. Their lives were like those of laymen, with wives and children. They had become monks to avoid the torture experienced by non-Buddhist rulers, later adopting it as their practice. They followed a debased Buddhism, possibly Tantric Buddhism. Their texts deviated from the original Buddhist texts. The Chakma queen Benita Roy was a Hindu and practiced Hindu religious ceremonies. The entire palace worshiped the Sanathan Dharma. Due to the strong practise of Hinduism, Venerable Bhante could not propagate Buddhism there.