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A BREACH OF FAITH
for with my own eyes I
aess that I derive from this
the Supreme Being, him whom the most favoured and
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;
most virtuous among men are not permitted to
Having thus rendered to the trunk of the
see
the
see.'
tree these
preliminary acts of worship, the king put himself at the
head of a hundred thousand men, who marched to the new
He was thus
deity and placed him on their shoulders.
removed to the temple with the greatest pomp.
The famous carpenter, Visvakarma, speedily arrived and
undertook to carve the face and figure of the god Krishna
on the tree which had just been deposited in the temple.
He promised to finish the work in one night but only on
condition that no one looked on while he performed his
task.
A single inquisitive glance, he said, would be suffi-
cient to make him abandon it, never to return.
This was agreed upon, and Visvakarma at once set to
work. As he made no