Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1455

c8.1455

Katirūr Gurukkal was a very powerful enemy of Otenan. The Gurukkal one day kept his new gun leaning against a jack fruit tree, and Otenan, in derision, commented about it thus : ‘Who is it that has kept the spear made of earth leaning against the tree on which usually spear made of gold is kept so?’ The Gurukkal, angry at the insult challenged Otenan for a combat within three months from Wednesday, the ninth of Kumbham. On the appointed day Otenan went to Gurukkal’s combat field and killed him, Parintukūl Emmenpaniykar and others. On his way home after the victory, Otenan remembered that he had forgotten his dagger on the platform of the peepal tree, and paying no heed to the advice of his friends he returned to the combat field and got killed there.