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for dancing-girls: a small bnilding inside and a large gate outside. He built seven pyramidal towers over the gates of the seven temples. He established seven gods. He made an elephant appear as if running, a beautiful horse, and a lion, too. He made a Gummațasimi. He placed an elephant's image in the yard. He so built that only one door was opened when a thousand doors were shut, and a thousand doors opened when a single door was shut. Thus did he do his work.
" It is a year and six months since I came. I must go to my native country. I came, leaving alone a fully pregnant woman. 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, cloths up to the shoulders, and betel-leaves to fill his mouth.
When he returned home with all his rewards, a brother and a sister were born twins at his house. When the son grew old he went to play with some boys of his own age. The boys said: - "You are a rake's son, and are without a father. How can yon play with us?" asked they. He said nothing at the first time they said thus, and thought a while on the second occasion, and at the last he stood up and asked his mother directly :-"Mother, have I a father or not?" asked he.
"Why do you ask, my son ? " said she.
"Some boys of my own age called me a rake's son. I told them that I would go home and ask. If it were true, I wanted to cut your throat," said he.
"Alas, my son! when you were seven months old in my womb your father went to work in Belgula, and now that a year and six months bave passed it is time for him to return," said
she.
"I will not remain without seeing any father," said be, and tied up a parcel of food for his journey. He prepared some food with three sers of ghi, and three pieces of sugar; also some boiled with milk, and some with cards.
"I go; I want to see my father; I want to see my father's work, and I myself want to work," said he.
He started from his house and passed by a water-course, a long hill, a Brahmana tree where an elephant was tied, a small Banian tree, Santandadka, a stream, Kokkada and Nirenki, and came to a cool platform round a soroli tree. His father, being much tired, sat with his rewards to take rest on this platform, and there the boy tied up his horse. The son did not know his father, nor the father his son. The son asked him : “ Who is it sitting on the platform ?," and held up his hands and saluted his father.
"From whence do you come and where are you going?" asked the father. "I am going to search for my father," said the son. "What is your country? " asked the father. "Kellatta Marmad," said the son. "What is your mother's name, and what is your father's name" ? asked the father. "My mother is called Iravadi, and my father is onė Sumbu Kalkuda," said the son. "Where is your father?" asked the father.
"I bave heard that my father went to Bélúz Belgula to do fine work, when I was an infant weven months old in my mother's womb," said the son.
“How many children bave your parents ?" asked the father. “Five sons altogether and a sister," said the son. “I and my sister were born twins."
“What are their names?” asked the father. "Yellanna, Mallanna, Bikkuru, Nandu, Narayana. My name is Biru, and my sister's name is Kallurti or Kalamma," said the sou.
