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THE DEVIL WORSHIP OF THE TULUVAS.
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of trades. The first son became a carpenter, the second a black-smith, the third a gold-smitli, the fourth a copper-smith, and the youngest was burn very tiny, but grew very big and became a stone-mason. He who became a carpenter was called Mulenadechchava, the black-smith Nudtlachchava, the copper-smith Chematigür, the gold-smith Yaranga, and the stone-mason Kalkuda.
The youngest aon and the sister were brought up together. When his mother was seven months pregnant with him, letter after letter and messenger after messenger came to his father Sumbu Kalkuda, from Balar and Belgula :-“These letters and messengers are sent on first, but I will supply the pregnant woman with medicine, and I am coming." said Sumbu Kalkuda.
He supplied her with five sers of mastard, three sers of pepper, some dried cocoanuts, * pot full of oil, and a bell-metal vessel measuring half a ser instead of a stono one. He prepared a quantity of food for his journey, rice water and things with milk and warmed. He put the thread on his shoulder to let people know his crate, and held up an umbrella. He made sharp his adze and put it on his sboulder. He made sharp his chisel and put it in a bag. He made sharp his axe and put it on his shoulder. He carried a cord and a pole for measuring. Ho dressed himself in his dressing-room. He took a bath in his bath-room, and then he dressed himself again,
"I am going to the kingdom of Belgula," said he to his wife.
He went on to the road and saw a good omen. He passed by water-course, by a long hill, by a Brihmaga tree where an elephant was tied, by a small Banian tree where a horse was tied, by Santandadka, by a stream, by the villages Kokkada ard Nireiki, and by a platform round a caroli tree. He reached Belguļn where be ascended twelve steps of stone. He passed by the gate. He passed by three lurge yards. He passed by a painted chávadi. He passed by a pillar of precious stones, and a large yard. There the King sat down ou his throne with peacock's feathers.28 He held up bis bands and saluted him.
“Come Kalkuda, take a seat," said the King. “Why did you send for me P" asked Kalkuda.
"Now this is evening and the time to take one's food : therefore take five sers of rice, and go to your lodging. I shall tell you your work to-morrow morning, and then you must work well," said the King.
He took five sers of rice and went to his lodging. He went to the palace at sunrise, on the morrow, when the King directed him to do fine work, such as a basti (temple), with a thousand pillars, and with one hundred and twenty 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 2 Work such that only one door was opened when a thousand doors were shut, and that the thousand doors were opened when & 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," swid the King.
He went to a large rock called Porys Kallani 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. Then he did fine work, and built basti of a thousand pillars and one hundred and twenty images : a dancing room, and a lodging
Or in the peacock grove. * This han reference to the great statue of Gomatisvara at Bravaņa Belgo!a. It is 56) ft. bigh. See ante, Vol. II. p. 129 4.
