Hundreds of people flocked to a village in central india on thursday to see if an astrologer who forece his own death would indeed die as predicted. But the 75 year old man survived the day. Kuunjilal Malviya,who lives south of the Madhya Pradesh state capital Bhopal,had been meditating in his house after announcing he would die on Thursday between 3pm and 5pm. A policeman confirmed the astrologer was fine and quoted his family members as saying the prediction failed because many of those gathered had prayed for him to live.