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so happened that his roaming brought him to this country and he
begged a Bhill -a forest-dweller for food. Asking him to wait there,
he went out to hunt down some animal for the king. When he aimed at
a deer, it requested him to permit it to go its babes for milking
and would certainly return to become his prey after that. It added
to believe its words, and would suffer like King Vilasat for the sin
committed, if it did not turn up. The hunter sparing, returned to
the king and reported. Wonder-struck, the king went to see the
strange deer and test its veracity along with the till. The deer
kept up its word came to the hunter as promised, but turned its face
on seeing the king in the company of the hunter, stating that it
would never see such sinner. The king realising the power of its
devotion prayed to show him the way for getting rid of his sin. It
directed him to go to Brahmakshetra and do tapas for getting rid of
sins, and later to reconstruct the destroyed temples. It also
predicted that he would be relieved, when the king's image on the
stone disappear miraculously. He implemented it, and as prophesied
he became once again the ruler of the same kingdom with better
status, and also nearer to God for the nobler ways he followed. This
story is depicted on stone in the temple, and that superb sculpture
publishes incidentally the glory of the kshetra and the righteous
life led by man and beast living in this area. Divinity seems
exuding here from every inch of the soil, due to presence of all the
highest gods. For kshethram, thirtham and daivam, particularly the
presence of Brahma, there is no other pilgrim centre that comes
nearer to this. It is peerless.
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