wate JAGANNATHA OF PURI DREAMT BY A KING, SCULPTED BY THE GODSi€ The route fo your roots ‘When they look bock ot their formative years, many Indians nostalgically recall he vital part Amar Chitra Katha picture books have played in their lives. I was ACK - Amar Chitra Katha - thot first gave them a glimpse of heir glorious heritage. Since they were introduced in 1967, there are now over 400 Amar Chitra Katha filles to choose from. Over 100 milion copies have been sold worldwide, Now the Amar Chitra Katha filles are even more widely available in 1000+ bookstores all across India. Log on to www.ack-media.com to locate a bookstore near you. if you do not have occess fo « booksiore, you can buy all the ftles through our online store www.amarchitrakatha.com. We provide quick delivery anywhere in the world ‘To make it easy for you to locate the titles of your choice from our treasure trove of tiles, the books are now arranged in six categories. Epics and Mythology Best known siories from the Epics and the Puranas Indian Classics Enchanfing tales from Indian literature Fables and Humour Evergreen folkiles, legends and tales of wisdom and humour Bravehearts Stiring tales of brave men and women of India Visionaries Inspiring oles of thinkers, social reformers and nation builders Contemporary Classics The Best of Modern Indian literature sept Mastrtions Editor Gayati Medan Dut Souren Roy ‘Anant Pi Cover ilustasion by: CA. Vionkar Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Lid (ar hia Kaths ot id 1983, Ap 2016, SBN 978.6 9998:17.9 sed by Amar Chit Kate Pie 2018302, Sane lar, 2a om, Mal sh of, Morb 4085 Pin a Zn mage td, Choad Village Ro a Ro, Thane 01 108 or Comune Cpls Const Tels aha 007006LONG LONG AGO, KING INDRADYUMNA OF THE SUN DYNASTY RULED OVER UTHAL® HE HAD CONQUERED MANY LANDS AND WON GREAT FAME, BUT STILL HE WAS NOT HAPPY. T T YES, | KNOW 11 WILL BULD A TEMPLE —A | MONUMENT TO GoD. IT SHALL BE THE | most BEAUTIFUL U TEMPLE ON EARTH!‘NSIDE THE CAVE "YOU WILL FIND THE \ Most BEAUTIFUL NILACHALA HILL © WHERE DO 1 LOOK For IT?SOMETHING EUS me THAT] BUT HE GOULD NOT LOCATE NILACHALA |AND WATER HE witH HM. DAY WENT BY. HE HAD FINISHED ALL THE FOOD HT fee [ ip | ade ; ore a Few mM NILACHALA, WHEREVER You ARE, "LL FIND you". THE DEEPER HE WENT THE DENSER THE JUNGLE BECAME.[AT LAST, AFTER DAYS , HE MANAGED TO FIND WS WAY OUT OF THE JUNGLE. 7] [ir was NOT A DREAN. IT WAS A REAL COWMERD COMING THAT WAY WITH HIS COWS. ¢ Saale THE MILK WAS SWEET AND WARM AND REVIVED ViDYAPATI INSTANTLY![ANB THE LITTLE COWHERD VANISHED. VIDYAPATI FELL T KNOW WHERE 1715, BUT 1WON'T TELL YOU. LOOK FOR TT YOURSELF. SEARCH WITH FAITH AND SINCERITY AND. een FIND IT! COULD...cOULD THAT BOY HAVE BEEN LORD NILA~ MADHAV HIMSELF COME TO GIVE ME HOPE® I'm CERTAIN NOW THAT: NILACHALA 1S SOMEWHER IVE BEEN WANDERING ALONE FOR SOME DAYS NOW. WHEN WILL TBE INTHE COMPANY OF PEOPLE [AGAIN AND HEAR HUMAN VoIces' Ont my Prrcnee | My PITCHER’ FLOATING AWAY!DO NOT BE AFRAID, BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN. AM VIDYAPATI FROM UTKAL. cone wir me, “FaKe YoU 10 Farin. w: 7 welcome 10 ouR | VILLAGE, SIR. STAY A with us AWHILE WA AS OUR GUEST.VIDYAPATI, AFTER HIS DAYS OF LONELY WANDER SHOULD 1 TELL ‘SOON VIDYAPATIS GROWING LOVE FOR THE SAVARAS BEGAN TO CENTRE UPON THEIR CHIEF'S DAUGHTER — YOUNG LALITA- ‘THE STRANGER AND LALITA LOOK AT EACH ed A MOM HAPPY HOURS TOGETHER,FOG [7 WAS AROUND THAT TIME THAT VIDYRPATI NOTICED SOMETHING WHICH INTRIGUED HIM, Sr FT. | LALITA, 1 SEE YOUR FATHER GOING OUT AT'DAWN EVERY DAY AND RETURNING ONLY AT DUSK. WHERE 1 GO? OBE KEPT EVEN \/NO...NO... WHY FROM YOUR SHOULD 1 HIDE IT HUSBAND > FROM YOu? ‘A CAVE ON A HILL, DID YOU WY FATHER GOES DEEP INTO THE JUNGLE TO A CAVE ON A HILL YES, THE CAVE OF THE GREAT LORD NILAMADHAV, ON NILACHALA HILL.DEAR ONE, PLEASE ASK. YOUR FATHER TO TAKE ME TO THE CAVE OF NILAMADHAV.. ‘OH! | DON'T THINK HE WILL AGREE. BUT VLU ASK HIM. (AS LALITA HAD EXPECTED, VISHVAVASU, WAS NOT VERY HAPPY WHEN SHE MADE THE REQUEST 70 Hie Wane HST ORE OF OS ILALITA, HOW COULD) [NOW © FATHER, PLEASE ‘you revea mY )( LET HIM SEE THE Lor. Precious secret / ) “ust Once. PLEASE, 70 HM! FATHER: A AG [LALITA’S PLEADINGS FINALLY WORKED. ry ea a eee pees “ALL RIGHT, 1 WILL TAKE( BLINDFOLDED @ BUT | You, vibvarari. But)? must KNow THE WAY TO| BLINDFOLDED. NILACHALA. YES. THINK | KNOW WHAT THOPE THE MUSTARD ‘SEEDS | TOOK FROM THE KITCHEN WILL DO THEIR, work! TAM SORRY | HAVE TO. BLINDFOLD You, MY SON. ‘BUT NILAMADHAY 15. MY (GOD AND | GUARD HIM LIKE A TREASURE.[AND The WALK TO THE CAVE BEGAN. OX, FORGIVE me, my FATHER-IN-LAW TAM DOING. = 1AM DONG FoR my KING THE WALK SEEMED ENDLESS TO VIPYAPATI. THEN HE FELT THE LEVEL LAND GIVE WAY Toa RONG SLOPE. pF a WE ARE BEGINNING WHEN THEY REACHED THE CAVE, VISHVAVASU REMOVED THE BANDAGE. BUT ONLY FOR A FEW MENTS. 70 CLIMB. This Must BE NILACHALA HILL. VIDYAPATI'S HEART BEGAN TO THUMP WITH EXCITEMENT. MOMENTS 2 LOOK on Hm) (Pie Tae jj I SON. eeauTir 2 THEN THE BANDAGE WAS BACK ON ViDvAPATI'S EYES. 6011 MUST HAVE ANOTHER GLIMPSE! |AND VISHVAVASU LED VIDYAPATI BACK HOME.[Bur ViDYAPAT] Dib Nor Have TO wart Lone | [A FEW DAYS LATER — 70 SEE THE IMAGE AGAIN FOR THE RAINS My MUSTARD SEED- SOON SET WSBT Foun Rn, POUR HAR Pea aren uy mee LINGS NAVE GROWN BEAUTIFULLY THE PATH OF YELLOW FLOWERS WILL LEAD ME STRAIGHT TO "THE LORD. FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF MUSTARD PLANTS] |...AND REACHED THE CAVE, VIDYAPAT! BROKE INTO A RUN...VIDYAPATI HAD FOUND NILAMADHAV FOR HIS My own . PLEASE GIVE LALITR AND ME | ‘YOUR BLESSINGS. WHEN THEY REACHED UTRAL, VIDYAPATI WENT STRAIGHT TO THE PALACE. LEAD MEO WLA~ ‘HALA AT ONCE, , PEAR VIDVAPRTIY MY LORD, 1 HAVE FOUND NILACHALA AND NILAMADHA ‘SOON, WITH VIDYAPATI LEADING THE WAY, INDRADYUMNA AND HIS QUEEN, GUMDICHA’ DEV), SET OUT FOR NILACHACA, VIDYAPAT! HAS TOLD US HOW POSSESSIVE THE SAVARA CHIEFTAIN 1g TOWARDS NILAMADHAV. NOW You TOO WANT TO MAKE NILAMADHAV YOURS ALONE. BEWARE, MY LORD, OF Suc THOUGHTS,‘BUT THE DAMAGE WAS DONE. ALL GUNDICHA'S | |..1N A MATTER OF MINUTES, TURNED INTO WISE WORDS COULD NOT PREVENT THE EFFECT OF INDRADYUMNA'S UNWORTHY THOUGHTS ON NILAMADHAV. THE GENTLE WINDS THAT TILL THEN HAD CARESSED LAcHaLA’ THEN, AS SUDDENLY AS IT HAD BEGUN, THE [STORM ABATED. BUT THE HILL, THE CAVE AND EVEN THE MUSTARD PLANTS WITH THE YELLOW FLOWERS HAD VANISHED. NILAMADHAV HAD HIDDEN HIMSELF FROM THE EVES OF MEN. (LATER, WHEN INDRADYUMNA AND VIDYAPAT/ ARRIVED THERE — % WHERE 18 THE HILL® ‘MY LORD, |...1 CAN'T UNDER— ei MY CAVE © my STAND. THE TRAIL OF MUSTARD NILAMADHAV & Apuanets ENDS ABRUPTLY HERE. a BEYOND THEM. NOTHING BUT SAND! n E p ae 2 5 emLET ME GO, YOu KNAVES! You... You wrercnes... ViIDYAPAT) ORDERED THE SOLDIERS TO RELEASE a eamaee TT 1S GONE... GONE se AND WITH IT MY CMY, NILAMADHAV "A SANDSTORN AROSE B FEW" DAYS AGO AND COVERED EVERYTHING, INCLUDING MY oo CAVE AND Y= ND INPRADYUMNA RAD POOR ViSHVAVASE oun. ino “JOU WILL REMAIN. my Rata, (Prisons it Mot yi conress. ji ‘SANDSTORM =H ¢ NONSENSE! YOU HAVE TAMPERED WITH “THE. MUSTARD FLOWERS. "Ta HIDE My NILAMADKO|LATER AS VIDYAPAT! LOOKED HELPLESSLY, ON, INDRADYUMNA BROKE DOWN. (0 VIDYAPATI! MY YEARNING FOR NILAMADHAV 1 DRIVING ME. MAD. WILL THE LORD NOT SHOW me A) REACH HM? way TO AL INDRADYAMNA WEPT LIKE A CHILD» Tih HE FELL ASLEEP. AND THEN HE HAD ANOTHER MARVELLOUS DREAM. (0 KING, YOUR TEARS HAVE MOVED ME. BUT | CANNOT APPEAR AGAIN AS NILAMADHAV, IN WHICH FORM | AM LOST 0 THE WORLD FOR EVER. INSTEAD, 1 SHALL APPEAR IN THE FORM OF A DAARU® FLOATING (ON THE SEA. TURN BACK AND GO 70 THE SEASHORE.1 SHALL “OME +. THE NEXT MORNING INDRADYUNNA AND MS MEN RODE SWIFTLY TO THE SEASHORE. THEY STOOD ON THE BEACH, SCANNING THE SEA IN ALL DIRECTIONS.[ar caer — mY LORD, come HERE [ LOOK! IT BEARS THE [SHANKHA—CHAKRA-)( ME. AT LEAST IN THIS FORM, ‘GADA~ PADMA! LL ENSHRINE. HIM IN MY TEMPLE. “THE CONCH, WHEEL, MACE AND LOTUS, THE FOUR SYMBOLS OF VISHNU,THe ELEPHANT TRIED HARD 10 MOVE FORWARD [BUT ONLY SANK TO ITS KNEES WITH THE EFFORT TM LORD, THE PARRY. er) ALL RIGHT. HARNESS: YES, MY EVERY MAN AND ANIMAL LORD. Sa (AS SOON AS THAT WAS DONE — ‘COME. ON, Now Ue ALL YOUR ‘STRENGTH AND PULL.‘BT A COMPLETE LOSS, INDRADYUMNA CLOSED T'S IMPOSSIBLE, mY LORD. ‘THE DAARU ust WON'T MOVE. WHY HAS THE LORD puT THIS. SECOND OBSTACLE IN.MY PATH & Zz HIS EYES AND BEGAN TO PRAY 70 VISHNU. THEN HE HEARD A VOICE. 0 INDRADYUMNA, YOU STILL KEEP MnY BELOVED DEVOTEE VISHVAVASU_IN CHAINS | FREE Him AT. ‘ONCE! ONLY IF THE TWo OF| YOU TOGETHER LIFT ME! UP SHALL | CONSENT TO BE MOVED. TENT WHERE visHvavasy was HELD PRISONER AND EMBRACED VISHVAVASU, MY DEAR FRIEND, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME 2 WE BOTH LOVE “THE SAME LORD AND YET, 1WAS MEAN AND SMALL ENOUGH TO DENY HIM To YOu. BND INDRADYIMNA TOLD VISHUAVASU ABGUT kL THAT HAD MAPPENED. THE TWO RIVAL come, Let us) et Kim UP‘ARE MY EVES THE LOG THAT SEvERA PLAYING ‘Ricks } ELEPHANTS AND HORSES! @ A coup Nor Pui, Wo MEN HAVE LIFTED WITH EASE | [lay LORD, INSTEAD OF [ENSHRINING THE DRARU AS IT 1S, WHY DONT [Wwe caRve IT INTO AN |IMAGE OF THE NILA IMADHAV THAT WE ‘A WONDERFUL IDEA? | SHALL DESCRIBE THE BEAUTY OF NILAMADHAV "TO SKILLED ‘CRAFTSMEN. THEY MAY BE ‘ABLE TO MAKE A REPLICA. ‘My, LORD, OUR, FINEST Ake“ BLABES BRtAR. BEEN ABLE EVEN TO MAKE NOTCH INT, INDRADYUMNA WAS BAFFLED BY THIS NEW epsracte. £—_e THE GEST CRAFTSMEN ( (onenern connor cawe’) “THE PAAR, WHO CANS. CAN, 0 KING) is a ! fie.(AND AN OLD MAN WALKED IN|” | THINK HE IS THE DIVINE ARCHITECT VIGHVAKARMA, | ‘COME_TO EARTH IN DIs@UIsE. MY LORD, WHY 1S THERE NO JS0uND FROM WITHIN © couLp great altar170!) DO! BUT IF HE, DIES OF STARVATION OR THIRST WILL WE EVER BE ABLE TO FORGIVE OURSELVES & (OPEN THE DOOR, 1 BEG You. PLEASE OPEN rr ALL RIGHT, PLL OPEN IT, WHEN INDRADYUMNA HAD THE SEALED DOOR BROKEN OPEN — THE OLD MAN HAS VANISHED! (OH, GUNDICHA, YOU INSISTED ON'MY INTERRUPTING THE ‘OLD MAN'S WORK ! NOW WE ARE LEFT WITH THREE INCOMPLETE IMAGES. FORGIVE Me, my LoRD. [dusT THEN, THEY HAD A VISITOR. IT WA SAGE NARADA HIMSELF! ‘ (© INDRADYUMNA,| COME. FROM VAIKUNTHA -'VE BEEN SENT 70] TELL YOu THAT YOU SHOULD NOT BE DISAPPOINTED wit THESE IMAGES. IT 1S LORD ViSHKU'S WILL THAT THE DAARU SHOULD BE THEN, NOBLE SAGE, | SHALL START_ WORK’ ON THE TEMPLE TO ENSHRINE THESE WOODEN Images,AS THE TEMPLE was BEING WHEN THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE Was ABOUT TO BE COMPLETED AND THE COWS HAD BEEN GIVEN AWAY, A HUGE CRATER, LEFT BY THE IMPACT OF THEIR HOOVES, WAS FOUND IN THE ENCLOSURE. UNDERGROUND STREAMS ROSE TO THE ] |SuerAce AND FED IT WITH CLEAR, SWEET WATER, CREATING A POND. THiS TANK HAS BECOME LET IT SS Kz worrer-sinos, A nyHE IMMEDIATELY ORDERED (BH EXCAVATION. THE SANDY SHROUD THAT COVERED THE TEMPLE WAS REMOVED AND INDRADYAMWVA’S TEMPLE, Gower YS) it GALA MADHAV TOOK OVER THE TEMPLE AND INSTALLED HIS CHOSEN DEITY IN IT. WHEN INDEADVI (0 SAGE, SOMETHING SEEMS AND NARADA WRONG. EVERYTHING LOOKS DESCENDED 60... 50 DIFFERENT. THIS To EARTH — DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THE TOWN 1 LEFT YESTERDAY. No! oH, NO! WHAT ‘A FOOL | HAVE TT WAS ONLY THEN THAT THE AWFUL TRUTH DAWNED ON NARADA, BUT TOO LATE. ‘0 KING, DO NOT GRIEVE] [iy GUNDICHA musi HUMAN’ BEINGS PASS [GENTLY He BROKE 17 70 INDRADYUMNA, EXPLAINING THE VAST DIFFERENCE IN Time | |BE DEAD; VIDYAPATI ‘BETWEEN BRAHMBLOKA AND EARTH. AND MY FRIEND | ON, BUT A TEMPLE INDRADYUMNA WAS HORRIFIED. | vicHvavasu musr \ STANDS THE TEST oF IME. DEDICATE. YOUR | Be Gone Too. | Row UNFoRTuNare /\LIFE Now To Your, OF YEARS HAVE ‘ALREADY PASSED TAMA STRANGER TO THIS UTKAL. THE ONLY LIVING HUMAN BEING (OF MY TIMETNORADYUMNA AND NARADA BEGAN TO ‘STRUGGLING PAST THE GUBRDS AT THE \SEARCH FOR THE TEMPLE.THEY SOON FouND| |DOOR, THEY RUSHED INTO THE SANCTUM ir. AND THERE — © THERE IT 16! ee, ‘SILENCE! HOW DARE x On, NO!-THE TEMPLE i e . f\ “worst 1s Taunt wina'so mucn | 204 a WwoRemP OF . WAN, “ALREADY LOVE HAS BEEN ROYAL WORSHIP OF GALA MADHAV, KING | oING ON THEN OVER BY (OF UTKAL! WHO ‘ARE You e i WE'LL Go IN "AND FIND’ OUrT. [y1worapvumna, ‘AM THE KING OF UTKAL. AND THIS, TEMPLE IS MINE! ‘OH! 50 We HAVE [AS INDRADYUMNA STOOD TONGUE-TIED AND ‘A MADMAN HERE! CONFUSED, NARADA LED GALA MADHAV OUTSICE LISTEN, GALA MADHAY, \ ARE...ARE YOU MAD ‘THIS AN IS THE KING \ 700% A KING FROM WHO ORIGINALLY BuILT | LONG AGO? THEN THIS TEMPLE. HE HOW 19 HE STILL REIGNED HERE A LONG, | ALIVE TODAY? WHAT LONG Ago. You must’ | KIND OF STORY ARE GIVE BACK HIS Temple A You TELLING METHE TEMPLE NOW HIS, INDRADYUMNA BEGAN | TO SEARCH FOR THE THREE IMAGES. THEY TOO HAD BEEN BURIED AND FORGOTTEN. Bur S00N — . Vtnere they ARE! RIGHT ON THE MAHAVED! WHERE VISHVA- KARMA LEFT THEM! u (oe) PRANAPRATISHTHA POOJA® LATER THE IMAGE6 WERE ENSHRINED IN THE TEMPLE, AND BRAHMA PERFORMED THE MY LORD, LET No ONE CLAIM THIS, Y TEMPLE AS HIS AFTER DIE. HENCEFORTH. THIS, TEMPLE SHALL BELONG To ALL MANKIND. INDRADYUMNA, | WISH To GRANT YOu A BOON. ASK ANYTHING OF ME. BRAHMA WAS VERY PLEASED WITH INDRADYUMNA'S SELFLESS GESTURE. NOBLE KING, YOUR FAME WILL LIVE ON! AS YOU HAVE GIVEN OVER THIS TEMPLE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, IT SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE SHRINE OF "JAGANNATHA'— LORD OF THAT 18 HOW THE DEITY IN THE TEMPLE BY THE SEA AT PURI CAME TO BE KNOWN 25 "URGANNATHA™. : INDRADYUMNA, YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH mucH IN YOUR DEVOTION To NILAMADHAV. You HAVE EARNED A PLACE IN HEAVEN . 1AM BLESSED) my LORD. |NORADYUMNA IS REMEMBERED IN ORISSA TO THIS DAY. THOSE WHO HELPED HIM IN M15 EFFORTS| ARE NOT FORGOTTEN EITHER. MEMORIES OF GUNDICHA DEVI, VIDYAPATI , LALITA AND ViSHVAVASU! [STHLL LIVE ON IN THE MAGNIFICENT CAR FESTIVAL OF dAGANNATHA— THE RATHA YATRA. ‘INSTALLATION CEREMON'JAGANNATHA OF PURI king Indradyumna of Utkal had only one wish ~ to be able to build Pee Ree cect ee eens for the image of the blue-coloured Krishna or Nilamadhay. The kin eee ene ee ee snatched it away from him leaving him groping once more in the dark. Contained in this Amar Chitra Katha is the legend behind the jonnathapuri in Orisso and the images enshrined init Cece ah aun Cs oy 24 a fe vss Buy online at www.amarchitrakatha.com “Ar Chi Kas hr aa a kr rn Th backs | eet ee eee ence iiomc icra rere ae aes eee cher families ores Inia. Camis oreo great wey of teaching eutto children, incuea NARAYAN MURTHY, CHIEF MENTOR, INFOSYS