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Story of Purandaradasa
Many years ago in Tirthalli village of Shimmoga District, there lived a wealthy diamond merchant named Srinivasa Nayaka. He was educated and was well versed in Sanskrit and Kannada. He was also trained in music. But Srinivasa Nayaka was a shrewd and greedy man. One day, a poor man and went and begged for some money from Srinivasa Nayaka to take care of his family. Srinivasa Nayaka mercilessly rejected, mocked and asked the poor man to leave. The poor man did not give up. He went to the back door and begged Srinivasa Nayaka’s wife to offer some money. Srinivasa Nayaka’s wife was a gentle, spiritual and generous person. But since she did not have any money with her, she offered him her nose ring to sell and use it for his requirements. The poor man, came back to the front door and asked Srinivasa Nayaka to take the nose ring and give some money in return. But the moment he saw the nose ring, the shrewd merchant understood it was his wife’s and rushed inside his house angrily to question her about the secret donation. Realizing that her husband was in great anger and unable to give a proper answer about the disappearing nose ring, his wife, Saraswathi Bai, rushed to the kitchen to drink poison. She prayed to Lord Krishna and opened the cup of poison to drink it. But lo Behold! She found her nose ring inside the cup! Saraswati Bai ran to her husband to narrate the entire incident. Listening patiently to his wife, Srinivasa Nayaka…
