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THE AWAKENING OF KARKANDU
When he became a youth, one day his father told Karkandu
Now Karkandu took charge of the duty of guarding the cremation ground.
Have you brought the required
cash, rice, and clothes....?
Son! Now that you are grown up; take charge of my work. Take this staff and guard the cremation ground. Collect levy from everyone who brings
a body for cremation.
3 m2
All right father.
Yes, we have it.
The sage said
When this sprout grows three inches long, whoever carries
it will become a king.
Once Karkandu was sitting under a tree near the cremation ground. A sage and his disciple passed from there talking
See that bamboo sprout on the Sir! What is southern side of the cremation ground. so miraculous
That is a very propitious and about the miraculous bamboo....
bamboo...
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