Jainism and Karnataka Culture

SR No.: 011062
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S R Sharma
Publisher: Karnataka Historical Research Society Dharwar
Publication Year: 1940
Total Pages: 263
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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JAINISM AND KARNATAKA CULTURE
stones, and a large yard. There the king sat down on his throne with pea-cock's feathers. He held up his hands and saluted him : “Come Kalkuda, take a seat,” said the king.
“Why did you send for me?" 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 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, and 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 were 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 Kalluņi 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.125
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 Kalkuļa.
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 frog which is not
125 Burpell, The Devil Worship of the Tuļuvas. Ind. Ant. XXV, Mş. 25.