Jain Siddhant Bhaskar

SR No.: 529551
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Siddhant Bhavan
Publisher: Jain Siddhant Bhavan
Total Pages: 417
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Siddhant Bhaskar, & India
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pea cock's feathers. He held up his hands and saluted him: "Come Kalkuda, take a seat," said the king.
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'Why did you send for me?" asked Kalkuda. "Now this is evening and the time to take one's food: therefore take five seers of rice, and go to your lodging; I shall tell you your work tomorrow morning, and then you must work well," said the king.
Next morning the king directed him to do fine work, such as a basti (temple), with 1,000 pillars, aud with 120 images. Seven temples with seven idols; a small temple inside and a garden outside an elephant in the outer yard, and also a large idol called Gummada. Work such that only one door was opened when a thousand doors were shut, and that the thousand doors are opened when a single door was shut ;-a building for dancing and another for dancing-girls, and also others for lodgings;-an elephant that seemed to be running ;-a fine horse and a lion.
"I want to choose my own stones," said Kalkuda.
"Go there to a large rock, and get the stones you like," said the king.
"He went to a large rock called Perya Kalluni and remembered the gods on the four sides. He found the cleft in the stones and put his chisel there, and then he applied his axe. The stone was separated, just like flesh from the blood. He then did fine work, and built the basti of a thousand pillars, etc.1
Then the song proceeds." It is a year and six months since I came. I must go to my native country. Therefore, I beg leave," said Kalkuda.
The king presented him with a cot to lie down on, a chair to sit on, five torches for light, a stick to walk with, clothes up to the shoulders, and betel leaves to fill his mouth.
Then Kalkuda's son, seeing his own father's work said: "All the work is done well, except the image of a trog which is not done well. Its eyes are not done well. Its paws are not well done. Its eyes are not done well. Its paws are not well done Its legs are not properly done."
1, Burnell, The Devil Worship of the Tuluvas, Ind. Ant. XXV, MS, 25.