Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3194

c9.3194

True to the curse, Kalāvatī after giving all her ornaments to Thiṇṭhākarāla bid him good bye and went and remained as a doll on the temple-pillar at Nāgapura. Deeply distressed at this mishap of his wife, Thiṇṭhākarāla dressed himself as an ascetic and went to Nāgapura. There he purchased five earthen pots and filled them with the ornaments of Kalāvatī. He buried four of the pots in the forests and the fifth in the bazaar near the temple. Then he built a hermitage on the shores of a near-by river and started living there. News soon spread that a great yogī had come to the city and the King went to see him. They talked for a while on religious and spiritual matters and the King was about to leave when they heard the howl of a jackal. The yogī smiled and the King asked him why he smiled. He refused to answer but the King insisted and then the yogī said "Oh King, the jackal says that in a forest to the east of the city under a silver plant is a treasure." The King immediately ordered his men to go and dig at the place and when they did they got the treasure. The King offered the treasure to the yogī but he refused to accept it. Thiṇṭhākarāla then on three different occasions pointed out to the King the three other pots in the forests and the King got great confidence in the powers of the yogī. One day he went to the temple with the King and while they were walking around a crow crew and the yogī smiled. The King again asked him the reason and the yogī said that there was a treasure pot in the bazaar near-by. When they searched at the spot directed by the yogī the treasure was found.