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91. A GARDENER AND THE
HINGUSIVA GOD
In a certain city a gardener was once walking down the road with a basket full of flowers but it so happened, and he could not know how, that the basket fell from his hand and all the flowers were scattered on the road. Instead of picking them up quickly enough, he kept on looking at the spot where the flowers fell. When asked why he would not pick them up, he said he could not really miss the spot where he must offer worship. He further explained that there was a god below the road level at that spot and his name was Hingusiva. Since he knew about it, he naturally worshipped him by placing all his flowers there. The people around believed in the story and even now in that city, which subsequently came to be known as Pāt aliputra, there stands a temple to the god Hingusiva by the road side.
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