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Source: archive.org: South Indian Festivities

In a village named Adhanur, there was a wealthy Brahmin who had a faithful and honest pariah servant named Nandan, to cultivate his lands. This servant was seized with an ardent desire to visit the temple of Nataraja at Chidambaram and pay his humble homage to the deity there. As he was a pariah of the lowest caste, the Brahmin ridiculed the idea of his going to Chidambaram to worship Nataraja, considered inaccessible even to the great saints like Sanaka, Sanathana and so forth. Finally toget rid of his importunities, the Brahmin gave him permission to go, after having finished the work of cultivation of his vast lands, thinking that Arudra in the month of Margali, would have passed away, long before he evenfinished a small fraction of the work assigned to him. But a miracle was performed for Nanda by Nataraja, and the work of cultivation of the Brahmin’s field was finished in a single night without any defect at all in the operation. The Brahmin was convinced of Nandan’s greatness and sent him to Chidambaram after having begged him to forgive him and to bless him with a knowledge of God. At Chidambaram Nanda passed through fire to get purified of his low birth as a pariah and merged in Nataraja as a mass of brilliant light.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Ends with: Shreshthadhanus.

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